The Campaign for Real Ale’s (CAMRA) Good Beer Guide, the UK’s best-selling beer and pub guide, has marked its 51st anniversary this year – after surveying 4,500 of the best pubs across the country.
A number of Peak District and High Peak venues have made it onto this prestigious list – and the full list can be found below. To order The Good Beer Guide 2024, visit the CAMRA website here.
9. Ye Olde Nags Head, Castleton
The guide says: “The impressive array of hand pumps dispense what is possibly the largest range of cask beers in the Hope Valley, mainly sourced from local breweries” Photo: Google
10. Red Lion, Litton
The Red Lion is described as “a welcome refuge for locals and visitors alike”, where “fresh food is served all day, every day.” Photo: Google
11. The Red Lion, Kniveton
The guide praises this “attractive stone pub” run by a “local couple who also own a cider company” - which serves a “good, well-kept range of beers from local breweries” and their own ciders. Photo: Google
12. Three Stags’ Heads, Wardlow
The guide describes this venue as a “quaint 300-year-old pub - one of the few pubs in the area identified by CAMRA as having a nationally important historic pub interior.” Photo: Google