8 though london s olde cheshire cheese is certainly more famous visitors and locals alike love this free house in the peak district village of castleton. In truth there are probably a number of derivations of the red lion which might explain why it is the most common pub name with nearly 600 examples dotted all around britain. We work with six pubs that share one of these names and i think the team here have probably sunk a few pints in a pub named after all 50 at one point or another on our travels.
The morning advertiser has published a list of the top 50 most popular pub names in the uk as listed below. Coming out on top was the red lion with a whopping 517 pubs on our list going by this name followed by the royal oak with 403 appearances. To find out we compiled a list of over 58 000 pubs from across the uk and ireland highlighting the most popular names around the country.
Pub names are used to identify and differentiate pubs many pubs are centuries old from a time when their customers were often illiterate but could recognise pictorial signs pub names have a variety of origins from objects used as simple identification marks to the coats of arms of kings or local aristocrats and landowners. A new infographic that lists the most popular names for pubs in each uk county and ireland. Most common pub name in the scottish borders is the cross keys while in county down it is the bridge.
A survey by camra in 2007 reveals a list of the ten most popular pub names in the uk. There are only four pubs acceptable to go to in my town and none of them appear in the list of the top 10 most popular pub names in the uk. Pubs were often named thus because of religion royalty local trades and proximity to popular travellers routes historically.
The morning advertiser ma has compiled an updated list of the most popular pub names in 2019 the top 25 pub names listed below are using the data from ma s newsletter subscribers and magazine subscribers. Therefore it is constantly changing as pubs open close and change names. Most common names of open pubs listed on pubs galore this table is based on all of the uk pubs listed on this site that are currently listed as being open.
1 red lion 443 pubs 2 royal oak 346 pubs 3 crown 269 pubs 4 white hart 240 pubs 5 rose and crown 204 pubs 6 kings head 201 pubs 7 white horse 197 pubs. Our uk pubs database tells us that the top 100 canonical names are. Have you ever wondered what the uk s most popular pub names are.
The uk s most popular pub names.
Most common uk pub names. Edging out the royal oak to pub name supremacy the red lion is the most popular pub name in the uk. Heraldry played a large role in the formation and development of pub names. Pubs often employed animals depicted on the coats of arms of prominent families such as the red lion.
Pubs often employed animals depicted on the coats of arms of prominent families such as the red lion. Heraldry played a large role in the formation and development of pub names. Edging out the royal oak to pub name supremacy the red lion is the most popular pub name in the uk.
