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The Good Pub Guide is a long-running critical publication which lists and rates public houses (pubs) in the United Kingdom. [ 1 ] Published by Random House 's Ebury Publishing subsidiary since 1982, it is released annually in book form and, since 2009, online [ 1 ] until 2021.
Wotton House is a hotel, wedding venue, conference centre and former country house in Wotton near Dorking, Surrey, England.Originally the centre of the Wotton Estate and the seat of the Evelyn family, it was the birthplace in 1620 of diarist and landscape gardener John Evelyn, who built the first Italian garden in England there.
It has a church [1] and a pub, the Plough Inn. [2] Nearby is Broome Hall House, built around 1830 for the politician and printer Andrew Spottiswoode and later owned in the 1970s by legendary actor, Oliver Reed .
Hook Norton Brewery is one of the last surviving Victorian breweries in the UK. (April 2006). The Marble Arch Inn, home of the Marble Brewery in Manchester Kelham Island Brewery in Sheffield Firkins outside the Castle Rock microbrewery in Nottingham A 19th-century poster for Phipps India Pale Ale (IPA) showing the Northampton Brewery on Bridge Street, now the site of Carlsberg UK Skinner's ...
Dorking (/ ˈ d ɔːr k ɪ ŋ /) is a market town in Surrey in South East England about 21 mi (34 km) south of London.It is in Mole Valley District and the council headquarters are to the east of the centre.
Westcott is a village in central Surrey, England, about 1.5 miles (2.5 km) west of the centre of Dorking.It is in the Mole Valley district and the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
The pubs sold their own beer, Dogbolter. Each pub cost around £250,000. The Firkin motto was Usque ad Mortem Bibendum ("drink until you die"). [3] In February 1988, Bruce put his eleven Firkin pubs up for sale, selling them for £6.6m [failed verification] in May 1988 to European Leisure. [4]
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) wrote Coningsby while living in Dorking. Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892) spent the latter part of his life, and died, in Haslemere. Charles Dickens (1812–1870) wrote part of The Pickwick Papers in Dorking, and refers to the town in the novel. Robert Browning (1812–1889) was born in Camberwell, then part of Surrey.