Common Names
Weird Names
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
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The Hole in the Wall - Dumfries
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Poosie Nansie's - Mauchline - Ayrshire. Poosie Nansie's was named after
a female aquaintance of Robert Burns.
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The Bucket of Blood - Cornwall.
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The Inn Next Door Burnt Down - Bedfordshire
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Mad Dog at Odell
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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
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The Sociable Plover - Portsmouth
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The Periscope - Barrow-in-Furness
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The Ibex - West Berkshire
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The Drunken Duck - Ambleside
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Tafarn Sinc - Pembrokeshire - The Pub Made of Zinc - The highest pub in
Pembrokeshire
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Chemic Tavern - Woodhouse, Leeds
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Alum House - South Shields
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Crown Posada - Newcastle
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Round of Gras - Bretforton. Gras is, asparagus which is the main crop in
the area
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Round of Carrots - Herefordshire
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The Quiet Woman - York. The sign being a woman carrying her own
severed head
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The Old Thirteenth Cheshire Astley Volunteer Rifleman Corps Inn - Stalybridge - Longest pub Name
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Q - Stalybridge - Shortest Pub Name - named after an earlier pub that closed in the 1930's
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Pipe and Gannex - Huyton
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Who'd a Thowt It - Middleton
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Sally Up Steps - Bolton - Originally called The Stanley Arms
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Bob's Smithy - Bolton - named after the blacksmith who spent more time in the pub than he did at work
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The Lion of Vienna - Bolton - named after Nat Lofthouse of Bolton Wanderers Football Club and England.
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The Strawbury Duck - Entwistle
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Oxnoble - Manchester - named after a potato variety
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Peveril of the Peak - named after a stagecoach which used to make the run from Manchester to London in only two days
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The Rain Bar - built in an old umbrella factory.
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Cupid's Hill Inn - Herefordshire
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The Cat & Custard Pot formally called The Cat & Mustard Pot Paddlesworth - Kent
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The Rubyiat Of Omar Khayyam - Glasgow
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Muscular Arms - Glasgow
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Lass o' Gowrie - named after the poem by Lady Carolina Naime
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The Jabez Clegg - Situated in the heart of the University of Manchester campus.
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Hardy's Well - Rusholme, Manchester
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The Thatcher's Foot - Co Durham
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Cow & Snuffers - Cardiff
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Nobody Inn - Dartmoor
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The Jolly Taxpayer - Plymouth
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Donkey on Fire - Ramsgate - Kent
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The Adam and Eve Inn - Paradise - Gloucestershire
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Who d' a thought it - Crowthorne, Berkshire
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Young Vanish - Chesterfield - named after a racehorse
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Spinner & Bergamot - Comberbach - Cheshire
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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.
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The Duke without a Head - Wateringbury - Kent
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The Leg of Mutton and Cauliflower - London
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World Turned Upside Down - London
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The Little B - Brooklands - Manchester
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Labouring Boys - Isleworth - Middlesex
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The Office - Sheffield
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Bull & Bladder - Brierley Hill - Properly called 'The Vine'
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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.