Included in this list are all premises in this branch's area which a stranger can normally walk into (apart from times of temporary closure) and buy an alcoholic drink to drink on the premises without having to spend any other money. This excludes (amongst others):
It does however include a number of places you might not think of as pubs. In practice it is hard to draw the line between (say) pubs that serve food, pub-restaurants and restaurants that happen to have a full licence. Or between a pub with rooms to stay in and a hotel with a public bar.
The name used is the usual name trimmed (except in a few special cases) of words like "Ye", "Old", "Inn" and "Hotel". When in doubt, the name displayed prominently on the outside of the pub is the one used.
The address given here is the official postal address, minus the post town and county
.The "Owner" is not necessarily the company that has the freehold, which these days might be a bank or property developer. It is the company which mainly determines what goes on in the pub, especially which beer will be sold, and usually the one which spends money on refurbishment. If there is no such company, ie, the landlord is completely free of tie, then the owner is listed as "private". About pub companies
The "Beer" column is mainly self-explanatory. A pub is listed as "tied" if its owner is a brewery and it sells cask ale. Many of the pubs listed as keg-only are also tied houses. Other pubs with cask ale are listed as "nationals" (only sell cask ale from multinational corporations), "indies" (only sell cask ale from smaller brewers) and "various" (cask ale from both). A pub listed as "closed" is expected to reopen or has at least not been converted to another use.
If you can't find what you're looking for, consider that it might not be in a category included in this list. Otherwise, it's almost certain that you are using a pub name or place name different from the one used on this site. If you're stuck, try our database search, following.