Wetherspoon set to close more pubs across the UK this year – full list

Wetherspoon announced it has put 22 more pubs up for sale this month after a total of 28 restaurants were closed earlier this year.

The chain explained that “almost all” affected pubs are located in areas where there is another Wetherspoon pub nearby.

The company, which owns 827 pubs across the country, announced last year that some sites were in a “commercial decision” due to rising costs.

However, according to recent reports, Wetherspoon sales are now 11 percent higher than pre-Covid, in 2018-19.

Last month, the chain predicted record sales for July after an increase of 12.2 percent in the last three months.

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Wetherspoon chairman Tim Martin said: “As a result of a continued improvement in sales and a slightly reduced expectation for cost increases, for example energy costs, the company anticipates an improved outcome for the next financial year.

“And anticipates an outcome for the first half of 2023-24 approximately in line with the second half of 2022-23.”

A spokesperson commented on the closures saying: “In fact, the disposals have raised relatively modest amounts (although every little helps) and almost all are related to circumstances… where there is another Wetherspoon pub nearby.”

Wetherspoon pubs currently up for sale

• The Alfred Herring, Palmers Green
• The Cross Keys, Peebles
• The Saltoun Inn, Fraserburgh
• General Sir Redvers Buller, Crediton
• The Butlers Bell, Stafford
• The Percy Shaw, Halifax
• Foxley Hatch, Purley
• Asparagus, Battersea
• Millers Well, East Ham
• Hudson Bay, Forest Gate
• Capitol, Forest Hill
• The Bankers Draft, Eltham
• The Widow Frost, Mansfield
• Coronet, London
• Wrong ‘Un, Bexleyheath
• Jolly Sailor, Hanham
• Resolution, Middlesbrough
• The Rising Sun, Redditch
• Sennockian, Sevenoaks
• Lord Arthur Lee, Fareham
• Plough & Harrow, Hammersmith
• Moon on the Hill, Harrow
• The Sir John Arderne, Newark

The Nightjar in Ferndown, Dorset, will not have its lease renewed this year meaning it will no longer operate as a Wetherspoon.

Wetherspoon pubs already sold and closed

• The John Masefield, New Ferry
• Angel, Islington
• The Silkstone Inn, Barnsley
• The Billiard Hall, West Bromwich
• Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis, Southampton
• The Colombia Press, Watford
• The Malthouse, Willenhall
• The John Masefield, New Ferry
• Thomas Leaper, Derby
• Cliftonville, Hove
• Tollgate, Harringay
• Last Post, Loughton
• 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
• The Sir John Stirling Maxwell, Glasgow
• The Knight’s Templar, London
• Christopher Creeke, Bournemouth
• The Water House, Durham
• The Worlds Inn, Romford

Express.co.uk has contacted Wetherspoon for comment.