1. Crown
2. Red Lion
3. Royal Oak
4. Swan
5. White Hart
6. Railway
7. Plough
8. White Horse
9. Bell
10. New Inn
11. Ship
12. Kings Head
13. George
14. Kings Arms
15. Rose and Crown
16. Wheatsheaf
17. Queens Head
18. Black Horse
19. Prince of Wales
20. Victoria
21. Greyhound
22. Cross Keys
23. Star
24. White Lion
25. Castle
26. Rising Sun
27. Anchor
28. Chequers
29. Sun
30. Bull
31. Coach and Horses
32. Fox and Hounds
33. Angel
34. Hare and Hounds
35. Three Horseshoes
36. George and Dragon
37. Nags Head
38. Globe
39. Fox
40. Lamb
41. Golden Lion
42. Masons Arms
43. White Swan
44. Beehive
45. Green Man
46. Travellers Rest
47. Foresters Arms
48. Waggon and Horses
49. Black Bull
50. Cricketers |
The Hole in the Wall - Dumfries
Poosie Nansie's - Mauchline - Ayrshire. Poosie Nansie's was named after
a female aquaintance of Robert Burns.
The Bucket of Blood - Cornwall.
The Inn Next Door Burnt Down - Bedfordshire
Mad Dog at Odell
The Percy Hobbs at Morn Hill, Hampshire - Renamed (from New Inn) in 1982
in honour of a local man who had been drinking there since 1920
The Sociable Plover - Portsmouth
The Periscope - Barrow-in-Furness
The Ibex - West Berkshire
The Drunken Duck - Ambleside
Tafarn Sinc - Pembrokeshire - The Pub Made of Zinc - The highest pub in
Pembrokeshire
Chemic Tavern - Woodhouse, Leeds
Alum House - South Shields
Crown Posada - Newcastle
Round of Gras - Bretforton. Gras is, asparagus which is the main crop in
the area
Round of Carrots - Herefordshire
The Quiet Woman - York. The sign being a woman carrying her own severed
head
The Old Thirteenth Cheshire Astley Volunteer Rifleman Corps Inn -
Stalybridge - Longest pub Name
Q - Stalybridge - Shortest Pub Name - named after an earlier pub that
closed in the 1930's
Pipe and Gannex - Huyton
Who'd a Thowt It - Middleton
Sally Up Steps - Bolton - Originally called The Stanley Arms
Bob's Smithy - Bolton - named after the blacksmith who spent more time in
the pub than he did at work
The Lion of Vienna - Bolton - named after Nat Lofthouse of Bolton
Wanderers Football Club and England.
The Strawbury Duck - Entwistle
Oxnoble - Manchester - named after a potato variety
Peveril of the Peak - named after a stagecoach which used to make the run
from Manchester to London in only two days
The Rain Bar - built in an old umbrella factory.
Cupid's Hill Inn - Herefordshire
The Cat & Custard Pot formally called The Cat & Mustard Pot
Paddlesworth - Kent
The Rubyiat Of Omar Khayyam - Glasgow
Muscular Arms - Glasgow
Lass o' Gowrie
- named after the poem by Lady Carolina Naime
The Jabez Clegg - Situated in the heart of the University of Manchester campus.
Hardy's Well - Rusholme, Manchester
The Thatcher's Foot - Co Durham
Cow & Snuffers - Cardiff
Nobody Inn - Dartmoor
The Jolly Taxpayer - Plymouth
Donkey on Fire - Ramsgate - Kent
The Adam and Eve Inn - Paradise - Gloucestershire
Who d' a thought it - Crowthorne, Berkshire
Young Vanish - Chesterfield - named after a racehorse
Spinner & Bergamot - Comberbach - Cheshire
Bull & Spectacles -
Staffordshire - Used to be called the Bulls Head but many years ago, a drunken man climbed
up the front of the pub and placed his glasses on the Bulls Head and left them there.
The Duke without a Head - Wateringbury - Kent
The Leg of Mutton and Cauliflower - London
World Turned Upside Down - London
The Little B - Brooklands - Manchester
Labouring Boys - Isleworth - Middlesex
The Office - Sheffield
Bull & Bladder - Brierley Hill
- Properly called 'The Vine'
Dinneywicks Inn - The Chipping, Kingswood, Gloucestershire
- named after a field behind the village. It is said that the owner used to charge a “toll” as it straddled the highway, but locals would jump the gate on horseback to avoid paying. This is reflected on the current sign. |
There are many
wide and varied inn, hotel and pub names in the UK. There are plenty of original names and
many wierd names. There are also many names common to a high number of establishments,
often named after Kings & Queens or other Royal connections. The list below shows the
top most common named inns. All those below number at least 100 establishments throughout
the UK although due to closures and renamings - the order does change occasionally. The
Crown boast in excess of 700 establishments bearing the same name throughout the Country.
There are also plenty of pubs with strange names, usually with a story attached. Listed
below are just a small number - some of which are no longer pubs or have had their name
changed. If you come across a pub with a strange name - please tell us
- and we'll add it to the list.