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CAMRA Top Ten for 2007:
The country's most unspoilt pubs are featured in the new edition of the Good Beer Guide 2007 - published by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA). The lists guide the reader to a rich variety of pubs ranging from humble rural gems to magnificent Victorian drinking palaces.
The traditional pub has been ravaged by change over the past few decades and CAMRA has put huge efforts into identifying the last-remaining examples. The new Good Beer Guide identifies 188 pubs which are still much as they were half a century ago. In addition the guide lists a further 63 examples where there are particular features or rooms in otherwise altered buildings which CAMRA considers to be of truly national importance.
CAMRA is publishing its list of National Inventory pubs to bring wider appreciation of them. Paul Ainsworth, Chair of CAMRA's Pub Heritage Group says: “We want owners to realise what precious assets they have and to use the positive benefits of heritage to enhance their businesses. If you have a genuine historic pub interior, what's the point of going to the trouble and expense of revamping it into one that's no different from thousands of others.”
Geoff Brandwood, CAMRA's Historic Pubs Caseworker adds: “We hope users of the new Good Beer Guide will visit these very special places and so play a part in ensuring their survival for future generations to enjoy.”
CAMRA's top 10 National Inventory pubs which serve great quality real ale:
1. Bridge Inn, Topsham, Devon - Untouched in generations, the beer is carried up by hand from the cellar. In the same family for over a century.
2. Crown, Belfast - Arguably the most sumptuously fitted pub in the entire UK. Tiny snugs, ceramic bar counter and fabulous decoration.
3. Dyffryn Arms, Pontfaen, Pembrokeshire - Unspoilt village local - llike thousands were and only a handful now are. Beer is served through a hatch from a ground-floor cellar.
4. Fleece, Bretforton, Worcestershire - A warren of different rooms and lovingly preserved by the National Trust. Lots of venerable woodwork which survived a major fire three years ago.
5. Garden Gate, Leeds - A magnificently fitted and decorated in Edwardian times. All-over mosaic floor in the public bar, ceramic bar counter and lots of lavish wood and glass.
6. Horseshoe Bar, Glasgow - A fine late Victorian interior in the heart of Glasgow. The circular bar counter is the longest in Scotland.
7. Red Lion, Snargate, Kent - A real timewarp on the edge of Romney Marsh. In the same family since 1911.
8. Salisbury, Harringay, London - Late Victorian pub fittings at their most glorious. Tiles, mosaics and superb mahogany fittings create the ambiance.
9. Trip to Jerusalem, Nottingham - Lots of characterful rooms, some of them hewn out of the rock under Nottingham Castle. Claimed more in hope than fact to be the oldest pub in England!
10. Victoria, Durham - Built 107 years ago and still with its original layout and fittings. Three separate rooms and a miniscule ‘family department' where people used to get their carry-outs before the days of Tesco and Calais.
(The Good Beer Guide 2007 is available from CAMRA priced £14.99. Order by calling 01727 867201 or order online at http://www.camra.org.uk)
So come on people - we need to visit these places to ensure they keep going...
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/upload/pdf/26_Historic_Pub_Interiors_Survey.pdf
The country's most unspoilt pubs are featured in the new edition of the Good Beer Guide 2007 - published by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA). The lists guide the reader to a rich variety of pubs ranging from humble rural gems to magnificent Victorian drinking palaces.
The traditional pub has been ravaged by change over the past few decades and CAMRA has put huge efforts into identifying the last-remaining examples. The new Good Beer Guide identifies 188 pubs which are still much as they were half a century ago. In addition the guide lists a further 63 examples where there are particular features or rooms in otherwise altered buildings which CAMRA considers to be of truly national importance.
CAMRA is publishing its list of National Inventory pubs to bring wider appreciation of them. Paul Ainsworth, Chair of CAMRA's Pub Heritage Group says: “We want owners to realise what precious assets they have and to use the positive benefits of heritage to enhance their businesses. If you have a genuine historic pub interior, what's the point of going to the trouble and expense of revamping it into one that's no different from thousands of others.”
Geoff Brandwood, CAMRA's Historic Pubs Caseworker adds: “We hope users of the new Good Beer Guide will visit these very special places and so play a part in ensuring their survival for future generations to enjoy.”
CAMRA's top 10 National Inventory pubs which serve great quality real ale:
1. Bridge Inn, Topsham, Devon - Untouched in generations, the beer is carried up by hand from the cellar. In the same family for over a century.
2. Crown, Belfast - Arguably the most sumptuously fitted pub in the entire UK. Tiny snugs, ceramic bar counter and fabulous decoration.
3. Dyffryn Arms, Pontfaen, Pembrokeshire - Unspoilt village local - llike thousands were and only a handful now are. Beer is served through a hatch from a ground-floor cellar.
4. Fleece, Bretforton, Worcestershire - A warren of different rooms and lovingly preserved by the National Trust. Lots of venerable woodwork which survived a major fire three years ago.
5. Garden Gate, Leeds - A magnificently fitted and decorated in Edwardian times. All-over mosaic floor in the public bar, ceramic bar counter and lots of lavish wood and glass.
6. Horseshoe Bar, Glasgow - A fine late Victorian interior in the heart of Glasgow. The circular bar counter is the longest in Scotland.
7. Red Lion, Snargate, Kent - A real timewarp on the edge of Romney Marsh. In the same family since 1911.
8. Salisbury, Harringay, London - Late Victorian pub fittings at their most glorious. Tiles, mosaics and superb mahogany fittings create the ambiance.
9. Trip to Jerusalem, Nottingham - Lots of characterful rooms, some of them hewn out of the rock under Nottingham Castle. Claimed more in hope than fact to be the oldest pub in England!
10. Victoria, Durham - Built 107 years ago and still with its original layout and fittings. Three separate rooms and a miniscule ‘family department' where people used to get their carry-outs before the days of Tesco and Calais.
(The Good Beer Guide 2007 is available from CAMRA priced £14.99. Order by calling 01727 867201 or order online at http://www.camra.org.uk)
So come on people - we need to visit these places to ensure they keep going...
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/upload/pdf/26_Historic_Pub_Interiors_Survey.pdf
