This Week - A Pub Walk from The Golden Lion, Settle, with a return journey on the Settle-Carlisle Railway

This Week - A Pub Walk from The Golden Lion, Settle, with a return journey on the Settle-Carlisle Railway

I usually prefer circular pub walks but this linear walk along the River Ribble in the beautiful Ribble Valley area of the Yorkshire Dales offers an added bonus. It gives the opportunity of returning to the start by taking a ride on the spectacular Settle-Carlisle Railway.

The Golden Lion is in the Market Square area of Settle and therefore close to the start and finishing point. With a reputation for good food and wine with log fires, it features in The Good Pub Guide 2008 and makes an ideal stop after the unforgettable return journey on the Settle-Carlisle Railway with its breathtaking views.

So if you fancy this one too, go to Golden Lion Pub Walk to download it.

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Let me find a pub walk in your area!

Let me find a pub walk in your area!

If you cannot find some pub walks in your area, why not let me help? Just add a comment to this post and tell me which county or area you looking for. If MyFavouritePubWalks.com has one nearly ready for publishing then I'll see if I can bring it forward in the queue; if they don't have one yet then I'll try and track one down for you!

Simply do an instant search for a pub walk below. Then post a comment below if you'd like some help. I cannot promise to succeed every time of course but I'll do my best and I have learnt various ways for tracing these for myself from spending many hours doing just that!

Enter a Pub Name, Town, Area or County

If you already know some pub walks in the area then it would be great if you could share those with us all too. It's easy to add a pub walk to the database!

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Publicans - Advertise Your Community Pubs Week Events for Free

Publicans - Advertise Your Community Pubs Week Events for Free

As a follow up to yesterday's post, I now see that CAMRA is offering free publicity to publicans organising special events (e.g. pub walk competitions) so whatever you are planning for your customers make sure you let them know.

Details of how to advertise can be found by visiting Advertise for Free.

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To All Publicans - How to Find Pub Walks for Your Customers

To All Publicans - How to Find Pub Walks for Your Customers

Publicans - Why not use Community Pubs Week as an opportunity to find the best pub walks from your pub? With 8 million of us walking at least once a month, this is the nation's favourite leisure activity making pub walks a great source of new customers.

It's also a great way to get hungry and thirsty customers like us beating a path to your door!

All you need to do is decide what prizes you would like to offer your customer(s) who submit the best walks featuring your pub (maybe meal vouchers?), then email details to MyFavouritePubWalks.com. The website offers a free profile page to advertise your competition and a way for your customers to vote on-line using their 5-star rating system. It also ofers clear guidance on how your pub can get the most benefit from this simple marketing activity.

Launch your competition during Community Pubs Week but give your customers at least a month to send in their favourite pub walks to MyFavouritePubWalks.com. You can download posters from the site so don't forget to put up a poster in your pub (and elsewhere) and spread the word!

To find out how easy it is to run a pub walks competition, simply visit Publicans - How to Find Pub Walks for Your Customers.

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This Week - A Pub Walk to Hever Castle from The Castle Inn, Chiddingstone, Kent

This Week - A Pub Walk to Hever Castle from The Castle Inn, Chiddingstone, Kent

The Castle Inn nestles in the pretty village of Chiddingstone from where this circular walk leads you along little roads and paths, through fields and woods, to Hever Castle and back.

The Castle Inn and the hamlet of Chiddingstone are both now owned by the National Trust to protect what is one of the prettiest villages in Kent. Chiddingstone and its row of 16th and 17th century houses are instantly recognisable from being the setting for films such as 'Room with a View' as well as 'The Wicked Lady', 'Elizabeth R' starring Glenda Jackson and 'Life of Hogarth'.

So there is plenty of interest on this pub walk, not just Hever Castle and Chiddingstone but also the charming little church of St. Peter's with the tomb of Anne Boleyn's father and variety in the landscape. Click on Castle Inn Pub Walk for details.

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Old Spot, Gloucestershire, voted National Pub of the Year

Old Spot, Gloucestershire, voted National Pub of the Year

The Campaign for Real Ale yesterday announced the winner of the coveted title of National Pub of the Year. This goes to The Old Spot in Gloucestershire following a vote that considered the quality of the beer, atmosphere, décor, customer service, clientele mix and value for money.

As part of the selection process, CAMRA members vote for their favourites to find 16 regional winners. These were then shortlisted to four pubs for the Grand Final with the winner announced to kick off Community Pubs Week.

You can see full details of the winner and runners-up by clicking on National Pub of the Year.

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Find Your Local Events - Community Pubs Week

Find Your Local Events - Community Pubs Week

There are more ways of supporting Community Pubs Week than downloading a pub walk or sharing a pub walk that is one of your favourites. CAMRA is publicising a whole range of activities being offered by publicans which you might want to try.

These range from treasure hunts to "Meet the Brewer" sessions, a special "Bacon Bash" menu to mark national bacon week too and of course some group pub walks are being organised too. Take a look at what is going on in your area by clicking on Events for Community Pubs Week.

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Community Pubs Week Starts Tomorrow

CAMRA's Community Pubs Week - Starts Tomorrow

Running from Saturday 16th to Saturday 23rd February 2008, The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) is again organising Community Pubs Week to celebrate the British Pub and to encourage us all to support our pub heritage.

This is a great opportunity for pub walkers like us to put our own favourite pubs on the map and help their survival with a new pub walk to draw new custom through their doors. The general view is that there is a tough year ahead for community pubs and we've all seen the figures saying 56 pubs a month close for good. So if you want to support your local in this way then click on Submit a Pub Walk to find out how easy it is to add a pub walk to MyFavouritePubWalks.com.

There a plenty of other things going on this coming week and if you want to find out more just click on Community Pubs Week.

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This Week - A Pub Walk with Beautiful Views from The Cross Keys at Llanfynydd, Wales

This Week - A Pub Walk with Beautiful Views from The Cross Keys at Llanfynydd, Wales

Wales is renowned for many things of course, not least of which is its exhilarating walking country. However, recorded pub walks are somewhat thinner on the ground so you might want to try a walk from The Cross Keys which is now available to download from MyFavouritePubWalks.com.

This circular walk starts and finishes in the car park of the Waun-y-Lyn Country Park with some beautiful views. Stop on the way at The Cross Keys which is a real old country pub featured in CAMRA's Good Beer Guide 2008. Try some of their excellent soup, sandwiches with real crusty baguettes, or go for home cooked main meals.

To download, simply click on Cross Keys Pub Walk. If you have any other favourite pub walks in Wales (or indeed anywhere else!) that you would like to share, simply click on Submit a Pub Walk to add them to our database and share in our profits.

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This Week's Pub Walk - The Woodman Inn at Wild Hill in Hertfordshire

This Week's Pub Walk - The Woodman Inn at Wild Hill in Hertfordshire

How about a walk around the edge of Camfield Place, the country estate in Hertfordshire that was the home of the late Barbara Cartland? This route offers tree-lined footpaths and quiet country lanes, rivers and a panoramic view.

The refreshment on offer at The Woodman Inn is popular with the Campaign for Real Ale, winning a regional title for its ale and regularly featuring in CAMRA's Good Beer Guide. And if you get there at lunchtime, word has it that it is worth trying a bacon and egg door step, a cheese and onion roll or a ‘Tony Special’.

If you fancy trying this for yourself, you can download the route by clicking on Woodman Inn Pub Walk.

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Nature's Calendar - The 27 Indications of Spring

Nature's Calendar - The 27 Indications of Spring

The Woodland Trust are running their Springwatch survey again this year. Monitoring 27 key indicators of Spring that were first identified 360 years ago, their Nature's Calendar is fascinating in the way that it shows how each of these indications of Spring are spreading across the UK.

The 27 indications vary from the first flowering of a snowdrop to first frogs and toads croaking and they are interested in hearing from anyone that has a sighting (or hearing!) to report.

To find out how to participate or just learn a little more about natural cycles, click on Nature's Calendar.

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