Wyre Forest CAMRA 2025 Spring Trip Options

Nominations are open for destinations for our 205 Spring Trip. Below are the suggested destinations so far. Members are encouraged to research these pubs and tourist attractions further before our branch meeting decides in October 2024. Breweries listed have tap rooms. For a comparison of accommodation costs, it’s for Premier Inn, double room, advance booking, 2 nights: (a)27th-29th March, (b)17th-19th April, (c)15th-17th May, 2025.

1. Buxton & Macclesfield

Pub Highlights: Buxton has 5 GBG pubs, including a Titanic-owned one and a Buxton Brewery tap house. In Macclesfield, also 5 GBG pubs including the RedWillow brewery tap.
Breweries: Buxton, Thornbridge (Bakewell), Beartown (Congleton).
Tourist Attractions: Buxton -- Poole’s Cavern & Buxton Country Park, Buxton Opera House, Solomon’s Temple (tower) and countryside walks. Macclesfield – Silk Museum. Accommodation: £128, £192, £162

2. Cardiff

Pub Highlights: 15 GBG pubs, including Tiny Rebel.
Breweries: Mad Dog.
Tourist Attractions: Hop-on Hop-off Bus, Cardiff Castle, Millennium Stadium (Welsh Rugby) Tours, Museum of the Queen’s Dragoon and the Royal Welsh Guards, National Museum, Cardiff Central Market & Hall, Cardiff Central Library, Museum of Cardiff.
Accommodation: £126, £125, £130

3. Chester

Pub Highlights: 9 GBG pubs, including the Deva Tap, Cornerhouse, Telford’s Warehouse.
Tourist Attractions: Hop-on Hop-off Bus, City Walls & associated towers, The Chester Rows, Chester Castle ruins, River Dee walk, Chester Roman Amphitheatre, Chester Roman Gardens, ½ hour Dee River Cruise, Walking Tours, City Cycle Tours.
Accommodation: £141, £163, £153

4. Derby

Pub Highlights: 14 GBG pubs (including Spoons and Marstons, though).
Brewery: The Little Brewing Co
Tourist Attractions: Pickford House Museum of Georgian Life, Derby Museum & Art Gallery, Derby Cathedral, Derby Market Hall, Museum of Making at Derby Silk Mill.
Accommodation: £101, £101, £99

5. (a section of) London

Pub Highlights: For example, a day enjoying the Bermondsey Beer Mile – a string of mainly craft bars in railway arches, documented here bermondsey-beer-mile.co.uk and here bermondsey-beer-mile-guide. hen another day in another area, Camden? Shoreditch? Richmond & Twickenham?
Breweries: Many.
Tourist Attractions: Many.
Accommodation: prices various, from £154 for Wembley Ibis

6. Oxford

Pub Highlights: 8 GBG pubs in the centre, a few more in Headington, 2 miles out.
Tourist Attractions: Oxford walking tour, Bodleian Library, Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology, Oxford Castle & Prison, University colleges and botanic gardens.
Accommodation: Peartree Travelodge, next to Park & Ride: £102, £84, £98

7. Sheffield

Pub Highlights: 15 GBG pubs in the centre, including Dog & Partridge, Rutland Arms, Crow Inn, The Fat Cat, The Sheffield Tap, Red Deer, Kelham Island Tavern, Shakespeare's Ale & Cider House, The Wellington, Bath Hotel, Devonshire Cat, Head of Steam, University Arms.
Breweries: Triple Point, Heist, Toolmakers Microbrewery.
Tourist Attractions: National Emergency Services Museum, Peace Gardens, Millennium Gallery (art, craft & design), Sheffield Town Hall, Sheffield Winter Garden, Sheffield and Tinsley Canal Trail, Five Weirs (city riverside) Walk, Kelham Island (Industrial) Museum, Sheffield Cathedral, Graves Gallery (19th & 20th C collections), National Videogame Museum.
Accommodation: £139, £150, £151