Property News · July 7, 2018

Where to move for… pubs


If it’s choice you’re after, go for old market towns or historic stagecoach stopsNow you’re talking. The perfect pub, with a roaring fire, wisteria-fringed beer garden, barrels of Black Sheep and Scampi Fries, is as important a house-hunting criterion as price and location. But do you go for quantity or quality?For number of pubs, it’s hard to find a definitive winner. My advice: stick to historic stagecoach stops or old market towns. Britain’s chief beermeister, Roger Protz, confirms the oft-repeated claim that St Albans (a triple-whammy market town, stagecoach stop and pilgrimage destination) has the highest number of pubs per square mile: 50. Dundee, Norwich and Otley are often mentioned, too. But in April, Liberty Games released research disagreeing with The Great Protz: the City of London came top with a whopping 219 pubs per Square Mile (in this case, literally). Those bankers, bless ’em, do need to unwind after a hard day making the rest of us miserable. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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