The British pub may have been in a desperate state of decline over the last decade or so, but it’s nice to know some of the quirkier names still remain. We’ve scoured the UK for the most peculiar pub names we could find, and offer them to you below:
1. The Jolly Taxpayer, Portsmouth, Hampshire
2. The Hedgehog & Bucket, Belfast, Northern Ireland
3. The Frog & Radiator, Greenwich, London
4. The Stab & Wound, Kilwinning, Ayrshire
5. The Swan with Two Necks, Blackbrook, Staffordshire
6. Land of Green Ginger, Kingston-upon-Hull, East Yorkshire
7. The Cat & Cucumber, Brighton, East Sussex
8. The Leg of Mutton & Cauliflower, Ashtead, Surrey
9. The Ferret & Trouser Leg, Sydenham, London
10. Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Think you can do better? Post a comment to tell us of a pub with an even stranger name! Or brace yourself for tomorrow when we’ll be posted a list of the UK’s ten rudest pub names!
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Pubs in the UK
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‘My Father’s Moustache’ – in Louth, Lincolnshire. Makes me smile every time I pass it! :)
Our pub is called “the Mops & Brooms” pretty strange!
Re strange pub names how about the Kremlin at Clee Hill, Shropshire.
There’s a Wetherspoons called ‘The Wrong ‘un’
Ye Olde Murenger House in Newport, South Wales
Bungalows and Bears in Sheffield – has loads of pictures of bungalows inside as you might expect…
“The House Without a Name” Bradshaw, Bolton. Known locally as the “No Name”