Great Video of a Pub Walk from Fox House Inn, Longshaw, South Yorks

Great Video of a Pub Walk from Fox House Inn, Longshaw, South Yorks.



There is no better way to get a flavour of a pub walk than by seeing it on a short video so how about this one from Walks around Britain?

The circular walk only takes about an hour but includes a climb with a fantastic view as you can tell. And the commentory is good too.

Of course for our purposes we would have liked more than the fleeting mention of the Fox House Inn at the start but you cant have everything and, hey, that's why you need to visit MyFavouritePubWalks.com too :-)

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Win a Meal for 2 at the Kings Head Hotel, Ross on Wye

Win a Meal for 2 at the Kings Head Hotel, Ross on Wye

The Kings Head Hotel is showing how walker-friendly it is by offering a prize of a meal for 2 to the person with the best pub walk leading to its door.

It has a picturesque location in the market town of Ross-on-Wye which has streets full of character and plenty of excellent walking opportunites in the area. Dating back to the 14th century, it retains many of its original features like oak beams and a large stone fireplace.

The hotel offers a great base for exploring The Wye Valley, Black Mountains, Tintern Abbey and Symonds Yat, the hotel is within a 40 minute drive of Cardiff and Cheltenham. Goodrich Castle, The Forest of Dean and The Welsh Marches are also easily accessible for day trips.

For more details, go to the Kings Head Hotel pub walk competition.

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National Winter Ales Festival 20 - 23 January 2010

National Winter Ales Festival - 20th to 23rd January 2010

Oh how I wish I could make it this year!

Over 200 beers to choose from, including foreign beers, cider and perries for those who find these appealing. Not for me, to be honest, I prefer something rich and dark and full of flavour... but each to his own.

This year, CAMRA say it is moving to a "larger, more palatial venue" at the Sheridan Suite, Oldham Road, Manchester. Combine that with the fact that there is no children's area this year suggests a lot more space for the beers themselves!

Go to CAMRA's website for more information.

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Slug and Lettuce: 50% off all food in January 2010

Slug and Lettuce: 50% off all food in January 2010

If you fancy a good-value meal out in January you could do a lot worse than finishing your next walk at a Slug and Lettuce. Just download a voucher to get 50% of all food until the end of this month - what's more there is no limit to how many vouchers you can download.

We recently had a fascinating walk around historic Winchester, and finished at the Slug and lettuce which is within sight of the cathedral across the park.

To download your voucher, visit Slug and Lettuce 50% offer and for other pub walks around Winchester go to Hampshire pub walks.

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Saving our Rural Phone Boxes - Council Vetos BT Plans to Scrap "Icons of England"

Saving our Rural Phone Boxes - Council Vetos BT Plans to Scrap "Icons of England"

BT may be on a mission to scrap all their uneconomic public phone boxes but thankfully local councils have a right of veto and are using it.

So I say well done to Winchester City Council which, according to this week's Hampshire Chroncicle, has just used its veto to preserve 37 of the 44 boxes threatened by BT. The reasons are mainly the poor level of mobile phone covereage or that they are in a key location for emergency calls.

This also follows a previous campaign in 2008 when residents convinced Winchester City Council to save 41 out of 43 blacklisted boxes.

Many of these boxes are our beloved red kiosks that are a part of our national heritage and promoted by Bill Bryon in the Campaign to Protect Rural England's fantastic and heart-warming book Icons of England ... so I have to say the romantic in me wants these to be preserved for posterity even if they are uneconomic.

BT does allow council's to "Adopt a Kiosk" (for £1 I think) with the wordings removed if they still want to save a kiosk for aesthetic or historic reasons butcannot justify the veto. Hopefully this will save even more and keep this dramatic element of our rural landscapes.

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