10 Wetherspoons pubs closing after being sold with another 35 for sale

Another 10 Wetherspoons pubs are closing for good after being sold off with another 35 boozers still on the market…so is YOUR local on the list?

• 10 Wetherspoons branches are being sold and will close for good 
• 35 are up for sale – but will continue to operate as Wetherspoons until sold 

Wetherspoons has confirmed that 10 of their pubs will be closing for good after being sold – with another 35 branches up for sale. 

Among those which have been sold are Harvest Moon in Orpington, Moon on the Square in Basildon and Postal Order, Worcester.

Chapel an Gansblydhen, Bodmin, and Wild Rose, Bootle, will also close their doors forever. 

Another 35 pubs are up for sale – but these branches will be open and continue to operate as Wetherspoons until they are sold, a spokesperson told MailOnline today. See the list in full below. 

The Postal Order, Worcester, is one of 10 Wetherspoons pubs which has been sold 

This comes as the pub chain yesterday said sales jumped at the end of 2022, but it is still struggling to keep up with its pre-pandemic performance.

Like-for-like sales rose 18 per cent in the last quarter of 2022 at the company’s 844 pubs, but are still two per cent behind 2019 levels.

Wetherspoons also noted that costs were far higher than three years ago, especially labour, food, energy and maintenance. 

Tim Martin, Wetherspoon’s chairman, said: ‘The aftermath of the pandemic and lockdown restrictions have been far more difficult than anyone thought. That is the picture for the whole pub and restaurant industry. 

‘People thought that after lockdown there would be a boom in people suffering from cabin fever but, instead, it has almost been the opposite situation as people have got in the habit of staying in.

‘That’s the big thing that means sales are down on 2019. Things are improving now but it’s slow.’

But Wetherspoon said it trumped the wider pub and restaurant sector in December, with sales jumping by a fifth compared with the national average of a 15 per cent increase in the month, according to the Coffer CGA Business Tracker.

North and South Wales Bank, Wrexham, is another branch which has been confirmed as sold

The full list of pubs which have been sold:

Harvest Moon, Orpington

Alexander Bain, Wick

Chapel an Gansblydhen, Bodmin

Moon on the Square, Basildon

Coal Orchard, Taunton

Running Horse, Airside Doncaster Airport

Wild Rose, Bootle

Edmund Halley, Lee Green

Postal Order, Worcester

North and South Wales Bank, Wrexham

The full list of Wetherspoons pubs still up for sale:

The Butlers Bell, Stafford

Worlds Inn, Romford

Silkstone Inn, Barnsley

Wrong ‘Un, Bexleyheath

The Percy Shaw, Halifax

Jolly Sailor, Hanham

The Alfred Herring, Palmers Green

The Moon & Bell, Loughborough

The Widow Frost, Mansfield

Resolution, Middlesbrough

Foxley Hatch, Purley

The Rising Sun, Redditch

Sennockian, Sevenoaks

Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis, Southampton

The Colombia Press, Watford

The Malthouse, Willenhall

The John Masefield, New Ferry

The Crosse Keys, Peebles

Lord Arthur Lee, Fareham

The Saltoun Inn, Fraserburgh

General Sir Redvers Buller, Crediton

Plough & Harrow, Hammersmith

Thomas Leaper, Derby

Cliftonville, Hove

Tollgate, Turnpike Lane

Asparagus, Battersea

Millers Well, East Ham

Hudson Bay, Forest Gate

Angel, Islington

The Billiard Hall, West Bromwich

Capitol, Forest Hill

The Bankers Draft, Eltham

Moon on the Hill, Harrow

The Bank House, Cheltenham

Last Post, Loughton.

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