Thank you to James Winterton for creating this list of weaving connected pubs which members might wish to visit. If you do, I am very happy to add a column for your comments! James emphasises that he has not [yet!] visited all of these personally; therefore members are urged to check the current status of each pub before travel and to provide any corrections to the Clerk’s office.
| Pub Name | Full Address | Rating as at August 2026 | Pub Description & Cuisine Style | Historic Textile Industry Connection |
| The Weavers | 1 Park St, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP20 1BX | 4.1 | A long-standing town-centre local known for pub games. Serves standard, comforting British pub classics. | Named for the local cottage weavers who operated domestic handlooms across Buckinghamshire’s early lace and cloth trades. |
| The Woolpack Country Pub | 21 Risborough Rd, Stoke Mandeville, Buckinghamshire, HP22 5UP | 4.2 | A welcoming community hub with live sports. Specialises in hearty carveries and stone-baked pizzas. | References the “woolpacks” (large canvas sacks of shorn wool) transported along historic farming trade routes. |
| The Silk Trader | 37 Brook St, Macclesfield, Cheshire, SK11 7AA | 4.3 | A casual Robinson’s pub with industrial-era decor. Pours real ale alongside traditional bar baskets and flatbreads. | Celebrates Macclesfield’s heritage as the world’s biggest producer of finished silk, once boasting over 70 working silk mills. |
| The Weavers Inn | 11 Honey St, Bodmin, Cornwall, PL31 2DL | 4.0 | A historic, rustic Grade II building with stone walls. Serves home-cooked Cornish pub grub and pies. | Housed directly inside an authentic 19th-century converted stone wool merchant’s shop and processing warehouse. |
| The Woollen Mill | Unit 3, Feethams, Darlington, County Durham, DL1 5RD | 3.9 | A spacious, modern leisure-complex pub. Offers family-oriented burgers, steaks, and Sunday roasts. | Built on lands historically tied to Darlington’s prominent industrial wool-combing mills and mechanical carpet weaving factories. |
| Old Silk Mill | Full St, Derby, Derbyshire, DE1 3AF | 4.4 | A warm, polished heritage venue celebrating local industrial rights. Serves premium retro-inspired British dishes and artisanal pies. | Sits beside the original 1721 Lombe’s Mill—the world’s first modern factory. Features a historic mural dedicated to the 1833 Silk Trades Lock-out. |
| The Merchant Pub & Kitchen
(formerly ‘Merchant & Weaver’) |
8 Lamb St, Spitalfields, Greater London, E1 6EA | 4.2 | A trendy, industrial-chic Market venue. Focuses on gourmet burgers, sourdough pizzas, and craft beer. | Located in Spitalfields, the historic epicentre of the UK silk trade where master silk weavers arrived from France in the 1600s. |
| The Weavers Arms | 98 Newington Green Rd, London, Greater London, N1 4RG | 4.3 | A timber-fronted classic neighbourhood local. Specialises in gourmet gastropub plates and elevated Sunday roasts. | Honours the Huguenot master weavers who established high-end silk and textile workshops across East and North London. |
| The Woolpack | 98 Bermondsey St, London, Greater London, SE1 3UB | 4.1 | A vibrant, fashionable spot with a famous beer garden. Offers modern British small plates and craft cider. | Located in Bermondsey, which served as London’s major leather tanning and raw wool processing hub during the industrial boom. |
| The Weavers Arms | 9 Lord St, Leigh, Greater Manchester, WN7 1DP | 4.1 | A lively community-centric local boozer. Serves affordable, casual ale-pairing basket snacks. | Pays homage to Leigh’s massive 19th-century boom in domestic silk weaving, cotton production, and industrial loom factories. |
| The Woolpack Inn | Totford, Northington, Alresford, Hampshire, SO24 9TQ | 4.4 | An award-winning boutique country inn. Known for high-end wild game, locally foraged ingredients, and fine wines. | Originally a historic overnight stopping tavern for shepherds driving livestock along the ancient Hampshire wool-merchant trails. |
| Old Weavers House | 1 King St, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 2AJ | 4.0 | A picturesque, iconic riverside restaurant. Specialises in historic British pies, fish and chips, and afternoon tea. | A magnificent 1500 building that directly housed Flemish and Huguenot refugees who introduced fine cloth-weaving to Canterbury. |
| The Woolpack Inn | The Square, Chilham, Canterbury, Kent, CT4 8BY | 4.3 | A historic, heavily beamed Tudor country tavern. Focuses on fresh Kentish seafood and seasonal game. | Built in the heart of sheep-farming lands to trade raw wool packs before they were transported to southern ports for continental export. |
| The Woolpack Inn | Church Lane, Warehorne, Ashford, Kent, TN26 2LL | 4.5 | A 15th-century former smuggler’s hideout. Offers upscale seasonal gastropub fare and locally sourced steaks. | Celebrates a notorious history as a base for “The Owlers”—historic smugglers who illegally moved untaxed English wool to France. |
| The Weavers Arms | 405 Station Rd, Bamber Bridge, Preston, Lancashire, PR5 6JN | 4.6 | A quirky, steampunk-themed micro-pub. Keeps things simple with traditional pork pies, cheeses, and rotating cask ales. | Named for the local cotton weavers who manned the automated Lancashire Looms that powered the surrounding textile mills. |
| The Weavers Arms | Ashby Rd, Hinckley, Leicestershire, LE10 1SL | 4.2 | A friendly, sport-centric local bar. Offers cheap and cheerful burgers, wings, and classic sharing platters. | Dedicated to Hinckley’s rich stocking-weaving history, pioneered by the introduction of the framework knitting machine in 1640. |
| The Company of Weavers | 31 Market Sq, Witney, Oxfordshire, OX28 6AD | 3.8 | A grand, weaving-decorated town-centre venue. Serves an all-day menu of affordable breakfasts, global curries, and pub classics. | Directly commemorates the historic “Worshipful Company of Weavers”, the ancient guild that strictly regulated Witney’s world-famous woollen cloth trade. |
| The Mulberry | Station Hill, Farnham, Surrey, GU9 8AD | 4.1 | An 18th-century coach house with a multi-level beer garden. Offers wood-fired artisan pizzas and BBQ street food. | Named after the historic planting of white mulberry trees across southern England in an early attempt to breed silkworms for domestic silk production. |
| The Mulberry Inn | Petworth Rd, Chiddingfold, Surrey, GU8 4SS | 4.3 | A scenic, relaxed countryside retreat pub. Focuses on modern British cuisine and a traditional Sunday carvery. | References the local agricultural estates that maintained mulberry orchards, intrinsically tied to the historical silkworm and textile trades. |
| The Woolpack | 186 High St, Banstead, Surrey, SM7 2NZ | 4.2 | An 18th-century community tavern with cozy corners. Offers classic fish and chips, pies, and real ales. | Serviced the local North Downs agricultural markets where wool merchants weighed, packed, and sold raw sheep fleeces. |
| The Woolpack Pub | Milford Rd, Elstead, Godalming, Surrey, GU8 6HD | 4.3 | A historic 17th-century former wool exchange. Specialises in char-grilled premium steaks and seasonal specials. | Built directly inside a genuine 17th-century wool exchange building where regional farmers met to trade and barter with commercial weavers. |
| The Weavers Arms | Nuneaton Rd, Fillongley, Coventry, Warwickshire, CV7 8DL | 4.3 | A traditional country inn with a sprawling garden. Serves classic Sunday roasts and home-baked pub pies. | Pays homage to the rural cottage industry workers who spun wool and wove textiles long before the arrival of mechanised steam factories. |
| The Silk Mill Pub | Oldham Rd, Ripponden, West Yorkshire, HX6 4EB | 4.2 | A vibrant, modern valley pub with a lively atmosphere. Known for premium cocktails, gin pairings, and light bar snacks. | Honours the historic textile infrastructure of the Ryburn Valley, which shifted from processing raw wool to refining premium silk threads. |
| The Woolpack | 20 Main St, Esholt, Shipley, West Yorkshire, BD17 7QZ | 4.4 | A world-famous TV heritage pub with a classic interior. Serves hearty Yorkshire puddings, roasts, and local real ales. | Situated in the historic heart of the West Riding of Yorkshire’s industrial wool manufacturing zone, famed for its valley textile mills. |
| The Flemish Weaver | 63 High St, Corsham, Wiltshire, SN13 0EZ | 4.5 | A highly historic, character-filled pub with flagstone floors. Offers comforting homestyle stews, pies, and local cider. | Directly references the 15th to 17th-century influx of highly skilled Flemish cloth-workers who settled in Wiltshire to revolutionise English weaving. |
| The Silk Mercer | St Johns St, Devizes, Wiltshire, SN10 1BL | 3.9 | A centrally located venue themed with historical draper photos. Offers cheap paninis, deli wraps, real ales, and breakfasts. | Dedicated to the “Mercers”—the merchant elite who bought, transported, and sold imported luxury silk bolts and high-end cloth. |
| The Weavers | 94 High St, Dilton Marsh, Wiltshire, BA13 4DZ | 4.4 | A uniquely run community village venue. Focuses on fresh sandwiches, light lunches, and homemade cakes. | Commemorates Westbury’s famous West of England cloth trade, once driven by dozens of local spinning wheels and weaving handlooms. |
