February 2025. Emsworth. Hampshire.
I’d persuaded Dave to join us on a walk round Emsworth, a small town easily missed on your Philip Navigator Map of Great Britain. Joan sat this pub crawl out, but no doubt she’ll get another chance.
A 10 minute jaunt from Chichester Station,
itself a delightfully old-fashioned place where trains are inexplicably late, folk buy Ye Olde Chichester Courier to find out how much the church coffee morning raised (£133.45),
and the expensive coffee machine in H & M is seemingly unfixable,
so we have tea and cake because we feel sorry for Mr H & M.
Emsworth Station greets you with a potential pre-emptive;
I’ve made big claims about the beauty of Emsworth, but appear to have oversold it slightly on the half mile trudge down to the Quay.
It felt a bit workaday, half-hearted attempt at Art Deco excepted.
Most of Worthing looks like that.
Dave and Mrs RM had sprinted off, even though they had no idea where.
“Where’s he gone now ?” asks Mrs RM.
I’ve crossed the road to admire Oriental City, one of the UK’s NCTSS 5 takeaways.
I catch them up at the knitted post box covers,
and then let Dave admire the pastel colours of South Street, where Emsworth suddenly makes sense.
Here we have it; three (3) pubs in a row.
Take that, Manchester !
Two of the Emsworth Three are in the Beer Guide, and two of the three serve Doom Bar.
Reader, we would be revisiting the one without Doom Bar.
But not yet.
First, a walk.
retiredmartin 
Never knew you could develop a thirst from reading.
Huh 🙂
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Back in the 90s used to frequent the Sussex Brewery over the border in, er, Sussex. They had the largest cask of Badger I’ve ever seen and a menu mostly comprising 30 different varieties of sausage.
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Staffordshire can beat that with Lichfield’s Tamworth Street :
12-14 Quill and Scholar, 16-18 Acorn, 20 Beacon,
and opposite – 19 Beerbohm, 21 Whippet.
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You can’t count Micropubs Paul !
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And maybe not the Acorn macrobarn.
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Kettlewell. North Yorkshire (population 321 in 2021), can equal that with Racehorse, Blue Bell Inn and Kings Head. Also the population count includes nearby Starbotton which has its own pub the Fox and Hounds.
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But those three are no where near each other.
If you’re going by population then I think Fenny Bentley was unequalled with two breweries and a population of less than 200. It’s about a mile east of Staffordshire.
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That’s straying into “west of Yorkshire” territory, for those who can’t bear to write “Lancashire”, Paul.
Some of the best people have lived in Derbyshire, haven’t they?
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Yes Etu, some of my best friends have lived in Derbyshire.
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Fair point on the Kings Head. The other two are pretty close though. https://tinyurl.com/vjwhyx4y
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I like Queenie’s distinction between beers and ipa, presumably to appeal to gen z’s
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Emsworth never came up on any of my searches and it was prettier and more interesting than at least two of the coastal towns I visited.
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