I challenge you to find two identically names pubs in closer proximity than these

by eerst

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  2. Years ago there used to be 2 ” the Swan” pubs in staines probably not that much further apart

  3. Auto-correct is absolutely shut isn’t it.

    Separately note these pubs are not the same chain.

  5. Portsmouth used to have around ten pubs to every residential street.

    I don’t know if it is still like that but I have never seen a city with so many pubs in such a small place.

  8. Didsbury used to have a Red Lion, a White Lion and a Golden Lion all within 100yards of each other. To make it more confusing, the Red Lion was completely painted white

  9. They were 2 miles away as opposed to closer than this, but there used to be two Bay Horse pubs on Bradford Road in Wakefield. One of them is now a curry house instead.

  10. Luckily for Vincent, he didn’t have far to walk to try and meet Penny in The Red Lion at 8pm without knowing which Red Lion she had in mind. So they will keep being Just Good Friends. 😉

  11. And to walk between those two Red Lions you need to pass the Golden Lion!

  15. I’ve drank in one of those – for clarity it was the Red Lion. Really liked that pub.

    In light of this new info, I shudder thinking back to the phone conversation to arrange a meet-up with some London-based mates, one of which said to just tell him the name of the nearest tube – real seconds from disaster stuff that was. Pre-mobile days too.

  18. I couldn’t but Oxford has 7 pubs that are named after various arms

  19. It’s just closed but we had two brewdogs within 5 minutes walk, and three in 10 minutes in Aberdeen 😭

  23. There are 4 pubs called the Blue Posts in Soho/Fitzrovia and if you’re in any one of them you’re at most a 6-minute walk from one of the other 3

  25. I’m literally watching “Here We Go” and just watched an episode that centers around the fact that they try to run a salsa lesson in a Red Lion and no one turns up to the right pub because they didn’t specify which one. 

    Then this is the top post on my home page. 

    Glitch in the matrix.

  26. https://preview.redd.it/qxvi59gui8kf1.png?width=1007&format=png&auto=webp&s=94ed5052f362bfbcd8b18ee92a89a03317e4c13a

    I know they are not the same name completely, but we made a table booking at the Golden Lion, then we walked in the Red Lion and they had no record of us and then she slammed the book and said “you booked at the other one didn’t you?”. Whoops!

    Apparently, they get dozens of people per week making the same mistake. The Red Lion is a cheap fullers pub and the Golden Lion is an independent pub with restaurant quality food.

  28. Whichever one is newer ought to rename themselves The Redder Lion

  30. I cheated, full disclosure, and it makes my answer feel worthless, but there are 2 Ship & Shovell’s in Charing Cross – same pub, two different buildings. Does that count?

  34. Used to have the Old Tigers Head & the New Tigers Head in Lee in SE London, they were opposite each other.

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