Welcome To The Lost Pubs Project

Archiving The Decline Of The English Pub

We now have 31,697 lost pubs listed, together with 17,075 photos

 This site was last updated on 1st October 2016

Although there are 48,000 pubs still in existence in England today, four are closing every day of the week. This is the highest rate of closure since the 1904 Compensation Act saw 10% of pubs forced to close. These pubs rarely reopen as nowadays most are converted to residential or retail use.

Help our community project to archive these lost pubs before they are forgotten for ever. If you know of a pub which has closed at any time in the past, please submit it, together with any anecdotes, historical information or photographs that you might have. Pubs do re-open from time to time, so if you see one on the site that is open please let us know.

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We make reference to every contributor, however if you believe we have infringed any copyright, please inform us and we will remove the offending item immediately. Note that the county index is determined by pre-1974 reorganisation boundaries. All information is included on the site in good faith and is believed to be correct at the time of submission. No responsibility can be taken for errors.