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Interested in London Pubs? Want to know some good Pub Routes.. ?
Pubs.. especially in London are a huge interest of mine. Nothing beats spending a wet and windy afternoon in a nice cozy London pub sipping a nice stout. We have so many of these fine establishme… Hey
Pubs.. especially in London are a huge interest of mine. Nothing beats spending a wet and windy afternoon in a nice cozy London pub sipping a nice stout. We have so many of these fine establishments with lots of hidden gems.
I have created a subreddit to share some of my favourite routes.. and to hopefully harvest some of yours!!
If Pubs interest you, please join us at r/LondonPubCrawl
Apologies in advance if this is not ok. I read the rules and I am pretty sure it falls within the rules.. hope everyone is having a great day.. despite the weather... I sure am enjoying my stout.
A good route I'd throw in the mix is the Bermondsey Beer Mile, though technically it's more taprooms and railway arches than proper pubs. Start around Maltby Street on a Saturday, work your way toward South Bermondsey, and you'll hit a dozen or so spots in a couple of hours. Fair warning, most only open weekends and the crowds get heavy by early afternoon.
If you want the classic cozy thing instead, the stretch along Columbia Road after the flower market on a Sunday is hard to beat. The Royal Oak and the Birdcage are both solid, and you're a short walk from the Pride of Spitalfields for a proper old-school finish.
If you're after something that isn't the usual central London crawl, the stretch through Wapping and Limehouse is worth a look. Start at the Prospect of Whitby on Wapping Wall, which claims to be the oldest riverside pub in the city, then walk east along the Thames Path to the Town of Ramsgate and the Captain Kidd. All three sit right on the water with proper history, and you can finish at Gordon Ramsay's Bread Street Kitchen if you want food, though I'd take the Prospect's pie over anything in there.
One thing worth knowing, that whole walk is about a mile and the riverside path floods at high tide in places, so check the tide tables before you set off.
What are some innovative ways to anonymously compare rental prices in a city?
SpareRoom's "rooms wanted" ads are underrated for this. people post what they're currently paying alongside what they want next, so you can scrape a rough sense of going rates by postcode without anyone knowing you looked. it skews young and flatshare heavy tho, so not much use if you're after 2-beds in zone 2.
Another one is just the depozit or tenancy deposit scheme data. not public-facing, but your council's housing officer can tell you median rents from deposit registrations if you email them under FOI. takes weeks, but its proper anon and nobody clocks u.
Rightmove and Zoopla only show asking rents, which are often 10 to 15 percent above what a place actually goes for, so they're a poor benchmark. The trick I've used is the ONS Price Index of Private Rents, which breaks things down to borough level and is genuinely anonymous since it's aggregate data, no listing or account needed. For something more granular, the London Renters Union runs a rent reporting tool where you submit what you're paying with your postcode and it maps it against others nearby, though the coverage is patchy outside the inner boroughs.
the openrent "rent check" thing is decent for zones 3-4 where the unions tool barely reaches. also worth checking the london.gov.uk planning portal for new build applications, they list "affordable" and market rent figures per unit in the viability assessments, which is basically the developer telling the council what they expect to charge. bit of a faff to dig through but its public, anonymous & nobody knows ur looking
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