Full list of 11 Wetherspoons pubs closing for good with 35 still for sale – is your local one of them?

WETHERSPOONS has confirmed that more pubs will be closing their doors for good.

The pub chain has announced that a further eight pubs have been sold, on top of the three that The Sun previously reported.

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At least two of the pubs have already shut up shop this new year, including one in Lewisham and one in Worcester.

We have asked Wetherspoons when the other pubs that have been sold will shut and will update this story when we hear back.

The popular chain has also confirmed 35 pubs are still on the market.

They will remain open and trading under the Wetherspoon brand until they are sold.

Several pubs in London are set to be sold, including boozers in popular locations such as Islington and Battersea.  

While other pubs in major towns and cities such as Southampton and Middlesbrough are also up for sale.  

Pubs have been knocked by a cocktail of cost increases as inflation sends prices soaring and less demand among cash-strapped punters.

The pub chain saw like-for-like sales drop 1.1% in the five weeks to November 6, 2022 when compared with pre-pandemic trading in 2019.

In November, Wetherspoon chairman Tim Martin said the firm remains “cautiously optimistic” despite the cost pressures hammering the hospitality sector.

He said he previously set out “various threats to the hospitality industry and these continue to apply”.

“Those caveats aside, in the absence of further lockdowns or restrictions, the company remains cautiously optimistic about future prospects,” he said.

Here is the full list of pubs which have been sold:

• Harvest Moon, Orpington
• Alexander Bain, Wick
• Chapel an Gansblydhen, Bodmin
• Moon on the Square, Basildon
• Coal Orchard, Taunton
• Running Horse, Airside Doncaster Airport
• Wild Rose, Bootle
• Edmund Halley, Lee Green
• The Willow Grove, Southport
• Postal Order, Worcester
• North and South Wales Bank, Wrexham

Here is the full list of pubs that are still up for sale:

• The Butlers Bell, Stafford
• Worlds Inn, Romford
• Silkstone Inn, Barnsley
• Wrong ‘Un, Bexleyheath
• The Percy Shaw, Halifax
• Jolly Sailor, Hanham
• The Alfred Herring, Palmers Green
• The Moon & Bell, Loughborough
• The Widow Frost, Mansfield
• Resolution, Middlesbrough
• Foxley Hatch, Purley
• The Rising Sun, Redditch
• Sennockian, Sevenoaks
• Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis, Southampton
• The Colombia Press, Watford
• The Malthouse, Willenhall
• The John Masefield, New Ferry
• The Crosse Keys, Peebles
• Lord Arthur Lee, Fareham
• The Saltoun Inn, Fraserburgh
• General Sir Redvers Buller, Crediton
• Plough & Harrow, Hammersmith
• Thomas Leaper, Derby
• Cliftonville, Hove
• Tollgate, Turnpike Lane
• Asparagus, Battersea
• Millers Well, East Ham
• Hudson Bay, Forest Gate
• Angel, Islington
• The Billiard Hall, West Bromwich
• Capitol, Forest Hill
• The Bankers Draft, Eltham
• Moon on the Hill, Harrow
• The Bank House, Cheltenham
• Last Post, Loughton

It is estimated that Wetherspoons employs up to 43,000 people across the UK.

Its website says it runs almost 900 pubs in towns and cities across England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

The chain opened its first establishment in 1979.

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