Leicestershire is known for being a beautiful county (and the home of savoury foods and brilliant cheese!), and bordering our very own Nottinghamshire it’s not surprising that it’s one of the first counties we were able to completely tick off. Five of the county’s Wetherspoons are in or around Leicester, with the remaining five located… Read More We Visited Every Wetherspoon Pub in Leicestershire
The Sugar Loaf started life as Thomas Goward’s grocery shop, where he would blend tea, ground coffee and spices and cut sugar from a sugar loaf for his customers, hence the name. For a century from 1810 the shop traded, and the two floors above the pub housed Goward’s large household; his wife and three… Read More The Sugar Loaf – Market Harborough, LE16 7NJ
The Amber Rooms is a fairly modern Lloyds No. 1, built in 2001 along with the nearby The Rushes shopping centre. It occupies the site formerly used by Loughboroughs electricity works, Brush Electrical Engineering Co., which quite interestingly was hit in WWI by bombs dropped from a zeppelin. The pub’s name comes from the Greek… Read More The Amber Rooms – Loughborough, LE11 5BE
This pub is named after an interesting and unique piece of Coalville’s history. On Saturdays and Sundays from the 1930s, young single men and women would walk from the Co-Op clock (which is just opposite the pub) to Lashmore’s clock, a short distance across the town on the other side of the Belvoir shopping centre.… Read More The Monkey Walk – Coalville, LE67 3WD
The Shoulder of Mutton in Ashby-de-la-Zouch has been an inn since the mid-18th century, when it belong to the Adams family. Prior to being purchased by JD Wetherspoon it was owned and operated by Bass Worthington before falling into disrepair. The pub itself is made up of a variety of different buildings, all of which… Read More The Shoulder of Mutton – Ashby-de-la-Zouch, LE65 1AF
The Kettleby Cross is a relatively young JD Wetherspoon pub, opened in 2007 as the company’s flagship ‘eco-pub’. For over a decade it generated its own electricity via a large wind turbine on the roof, now relying on photovoltaic tiles, and is designed to minimise its energy usage through rainwater harvesting, thermally efficient flooring and… Read More The Kettleby Cross – Melton Mowbray, LE13 0UJ
The White House was built in 1928 for the honorary secretary of Leicester Tigers rugby union club, Thomas Crumbie. He unfortunately passed away the same year, shortly before the house was completed, though it lived on as a luxurious residence for the next two decades. In 1950 it started its new life as a public… Read More The White House – Leicester, LE7 9SE
William Wyggeston was a wealthy 16th century wool merchant who twice became mayor of Leicester. Incredibly rich (allegedly paying 22% of all of Leicester’s tax in 1522) he donated significant sums towards opening hospitals and schools in the local area, earning him a statue on Leicester’s clock tower and – perhaps more importantly – The… Read More The William Wygston – Wigston, LE18 1DR
The Lord Keeper of the Great Seal takes its name from the position of the Lord charged with possessing the Great Seal of England. This officer would use the Seal to create a wax figure which proved that documents were officially sealed by the monarchy. The connection to this particular pub comes from Sir Nathan… Read More The Lord Keeper of the Great Seal – Oadby, LE2 5BF
The High Cross sits on the corner of High Street and Highcross Street in Leicester city centre. A small granite slab placed in the road outside the pub marks the original location of the High Cross, the centre point of the city, and the High Cross monument stands just across the road from it. It’s… Read More The High Cross – Leicester, LE1 4JB
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