Oldham named in top 10 pub crawl locations In England by experts

Night out experts from Hen Weekends and Stag Weekends located the best pub crawl destinations in England by analysing official Nomis data to prove the top 10 towns and cities with the most pubs and bars per 10 miles²

Experts have named Oldham as the seventh best location in England for a pub crawl, tying with Liverpool and Darlington.

Night out experts from Hen Weekends and Stag Weekends located the best pub crawl destinations in England by analysing official Nomis data to prove the top 10 towns and cities with the most pubs and bars per 10 miles².

The top 10 are as follows:

Huddersfield - 65 pubs and bars per 10 miles²

South Shields - 60 pubs and bars per 10 miles²

Shrewsbury - 56 pubs and bars per 10 miles²

Portsmouth - 54 pubs and bars per 10 miles²

Bath & Norwich - 52 pubs and bars per 10 miles²

Bristol - 50 pubs and bars per 10 miles²

Oldham, Liverpool and Darlington - 49 pubs and bars per 10 miles²

The experts also used Ahrefs data, to discover there's a whopping 2.6k Google searches per month in the UK for the term 'pub crawl', and 6.6K Google searches per month in the USA for the term 'bar crawl'.

Speaking on the data found and the popularity of pub crawls in the UK, night out expert and professional at Hen Weekends and Stag Weekends, Alicia Curry, said: “In many smaller towns across England, they’ve adapted massively to their dwindling number of high street shoppers by focussing on offering experiences in the forms of restaurants, bars, and pubs - the type of retail that you can’t quite replicate at home.

“England already has many infamous pub crawls, such as the Otley Run in Leeds and the Monopoly Run in London, but it appears that our smaller towns and cities are equally as good and probably much cheaper to take part in.

"I expect to see many more well-known crawls set up over the next few years, dotted around the country.”

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