Good Food Guide 2016 top 50 pubs - full list

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The list below is unique in the UK: every pub has earned its place through its score in the Good Food Guide 2016, inspector reports and strong reader feedback.

There are some strong new entries this year including The Woodspeen, The Lickfold Inn (both new to Top 10) and The Pony and Trap which has roared up the list to No 5 (it was No 25 last year).

1 Freemasons at Wiswell, Lancashire

2 The Hand & Flowers, Buckinghamshire

3 The Sportsman, Kent

4 Red Lion, East Chisenbury, Wiltshire

5 The Pony & Trap, Chew Magna, Somerset

6 The Lickfold Inn, Sussex

7 The Woodspeen, Berkshire

8 The Ancrum Cross Keys, Borders, Scotland

9 The Pipe and Glass Inn, Yorkshire

10 The Royal Oak, Paley Street, Berkshire

11 The Coach, Marlow, Buckinghamshire

12 The Butcher’s Arms, Eldersfield, Glos

13 The Treby Arms, Devon

14 The Cross at Kenilworth, Warwickshire

15 The White Oak, Cookham, Berkshire

16 The Hardwick, Abergavenny

17 The Star Inn, Harome, Yorkshire

18 The Stagg Inn, Titley, Herefordshire

19 The Harwood Arms, Fulham, London

20 The Plough, Bolnhurst, Bedfordshire

21 The Plough Inn, Longparish, Hampshire

22 The Hinds Head, Berkshire

23 The Nut Tree Inn, Oxfordshire

24 The Masons Arms, Knowstone, Devon

25 The Broad Chare, Tyne & Wear

26 The Miller of Mansfield, Oxfordshire

27 The Wellington Arms, Baughurst, Hampshire

28 The Falcon Inn, Withernwick, Yorkshire

29 The Lamb Inn, Crawley, Oxfordshire

30 The Springer Spaniel, Cornwall

31 The Star Inn, Sparsholt, Oxfordshire

32 The Felin Fach Griffin, Powys

33 The Duke of Cumberland Arms, West Sussex

34 The Purefoy Arms, Hampshire

35 The Duke of York Inn, Grindleton, Lancashire

36 The Kinmel Arms, Conwy

37 The Richmond Arms, West Ashling, West Sussex

38 The Five Alls, Oxfordshire

39 The New Inn, Great Limber, Lincolnshire

40 The General Tarleton, Yorkshire

41 The White Hart, Lydgate, Greater Manchester

42 The Sun Inn, Dedham, Essex

43 The Bay Horse, Hurworth-on-Tees, Durham

44 The Kingham Plough, Oxfordshire 45 The Square and Compasses, Essex

46 The Star at Sancton, Yorkshire

47 Bunch of Grapes, Glamorgan 48 Beckford Arms, Wiltshire

49 Wheatsheaf Inn, Northleach, Gloucestershire

50 The Camberwell Arms, London

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Good Food Guide 2016 top 50 pubs - full list