> UK Pub Density by Parliamentary Constituency

Technically, this is only the pub density in Great Britain - the UK is "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", and Northern Ireland is not covered, so...

Why use FHRS as the source rather than OSM? OSM isn't perfect either but for my area at least it seems a lot more comprehensive.

Hmm, this dataset is pretty poor. There are at least 3 pubs near me that are missing.

Its only 9am in the UK and the demand means its has already serving a 520.

I can't find a single pub using this page, let alone the nearest to me.

OK, I think this will be close to an all time record: Leopoldsburg (Belgium, 14k inhabitants) had more than 150 pubs in the 1980s.

• martinclayton

  today at 11:12 AM

  Dataset does seem sketchy. My village has two pubs, neither appear. Two non-pub licensed locations (social club, stately home) do appear. The dot for the pub in the next village is off by about 100m.

• flir

  today at 8:58 AM

  I make that 933:1? Portsmouth (Navy/dockyard town) had 115:1 in the 1860s. (822 pubs and beerhouses against a population of 95k). There was a row of five pubs right outside the dockyard gate.

  I see Leopoldsburg had a large military camp nearby. Same story?

  • falcor84

    today at 10:03 AM

    You're off by a factor of 10: 14k/150 is ~93 residents per pub.

  • kaelyx

    today at 9:22 AM

    Im surprised Newcastle upon Tyne isn't higher on this map. I guess its Density of housing near the center dilutes the ratio

  • toolslive

    today at 9:00 AM

    yup. soldiers in dire need of a drink

Really surprising that Inverness and Skye have only 16 pubs considering how much tourism the area has. I felt like it wasn't lacking for pubs but maybe I saw all 16...

• wetbaby

  today at 6:35 AM

  A good third of the pubs are missing in my town tbh and they're definitely still open.

  • CiaranMcNulty

    today at 6:50 AM

    It looks like the data is from OpenStreetMap so maybe you could add them if they’re missing there?

    • n4r9

      today at 7:39 AM

      If you click the question mark it has:

      > Pub data is sourced from the Food Hygiene Rating Service (FHRS) via GetTheData Open Pubs

      https://www.getthedata.com/open-pubs

      • MrDOS

        today at 8:09 AM

        Ah, interesting. Searching the dataset for my local area, this seems to include some restaurants, but omits hotels entirely. That's skewing the numbers downward tremendously.

        • today at 9:33 AM

      • 2b3a51

        today at 8:36 AM

        Which explains why Spearmint Rhino is listed in Birmingham (hint: you might get a surprise popping in that establishment for a quick pint).

        So nice interface and all but some data curation will be needed - perhaps on a crowd sourced basis? Click and add comment &c.

        • flir

          today at 9:34 AM

          I thought about doing something similar pre-Covid. There are commercial datasets that are more complete (Local Data Company was the one I targeted when I was researching), but... well... £000's a quarter.

          The project would have had to cover its costs, so the idea went to the great backlog in the sky.

    • mojo74

      today at 7:29 AM

      I would argue it's your civic duty :)

  • BoxOfRain

    today at 8:45 AM

    Yeah I'm dogsitting at my childhood home right now and it's missing the rural pubs on the dog route.

• pelagicAustral

  today at 9:05 AM

  I was in Inverness a few weeks ago, seems like the tourist season is on, and it was fairly hard to find a pub other than downtown. The other interesting thing is that a lot of them don't seem to not go by the advertised opening times, which later on made total sense based on what an old man told me about the Highlands having their own time.

• lostlogin

  today at 9:59 AM

  There were about as many golf courses as pubs when I went through there - but that was a while back.