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Wetherspoons is closing multiple pubs this month and a full list shows which bars are shutting or at threat.
The giant has already said 19 pubs have been sold off and 35 additional hostelries have been put on the market.
A further outlet in its estate has also been added to the list.
Bars have faced rising costs that would've likely been passed to customers, but there has also been lower demand from customers who are facing a cost of living crisis.
The pub chain's sales fell by 1.1%, it reported on November 6, 2022, in comparison to trading before the pandemic in 2019.
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Wetherspoons pub The Moon Under Water in Manchester (Getty Images)But the Financial Times reports finding buyers in some pub locations has been difficult.
Other pub outlets have also moved to sell its bars to reduce debt.
They include pub firm Stonegate, which operates the Slug and Lettuce and Be At One brands, according to Bloomberg.
Other operators have cut opening hours, including Revolution, which is closing on Mondays and Tuesdays to curb energy costs.
The British Beer and Pub Association estimated 4,500 pubs in the UK were on the verge of reducing trading hours over winter.
The Mirror recently reported that JD Wetherspoon had sold 10 of its pubs, while another 35 are still up for sale across the country.
There has been lower demand from customers who are facing a cost of living crisis (Getty Images)In September last year, the company made the "commercial decision" to put a number of its sites up for sale following previous warnings due to rising staff wages and repairs.
The pub chain, owned by Exeter-based businessman Tim Martin, originally put 32 of its sites on the market in a move it said would 'disappoint' customers and staff.
A few months later, it then put a further seven pubs up for sale, bringing the total to 39.
The pub locations earmarked for closure are spread out across the country and include bars in northern Scotland, North Wales, North West, Midlands, and the south.
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The Sir John Stirling Maxwell in Glasgow has now been added to the prevously published list, and will close its doors on March 26.
Wetherspoons pub founder Tim Martin (Getty Images)Here is the full list of pubs set to close from February:
- Airside Doncaster Airport – Running Horse
- Basildon – Moon on the Square
- Bodmin – Chapel an Gansblydhen
- Bootle – Wild Rose
- Lee Green – Edmund Halley
- Orpington – Harvest Moon
- Taunton – Coal Orchard
- Wick – Alexander Bain
- Worcester – Postal Order
- Wrexham – North and South Wales Bank
The 35 other pubs for sale are located all over the UK.
According to the JDW Disposals website, a number of the 35 pubs are still up for sale, or are currently under offer.
The sites on the market include:
- Barnsley – Silkstone Inn
- Battersea – Asparagus
- Bexleyheath – Wrong ‘Un
- Cheltenham – The Bank House
- Crediton – General Sir Redvers Buller
- Derby – Thomas Leaper
- East Ham – Millers Well
- Eltham – The Bankers Draft
- Fareham – Lord Arthur Lee
- Forest Gate – Hudson Bay
- Forest Hill – Capitol
- Fraserburgh – The Saltoun Inn
- Halifax – The Percy Shaw
- Hammersmith – Plough and Harrow
- Hanham – Jolly Sailor
- Harrow – Moon on the Hill
- Hove – Cliftonville
- Islington – Angel
- Loughborough – The Moon and Bell
- Loughton – Last Post
- Mansfield – The Widow Frost
- Middlesbrough – Resolution
- New Ferry – The John Masefield
- Palmers Green – The Alfred Herring
- Peebles – The Cross Keys
- Purley – Foxley Hatch
- Redditch – The Rising Sun
- Romford – Worlds Inn
- Sevenoaks – Sennockian
- Southampton – Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis
- Stafford – The Butlers Bell
- Turnpike Lane – Tollgate
- Watford – The Colombia Press
- West Bromwich – The Billiard Hall
- Willenhall – The Malthouse
A JD Wetherspoon spokesman said: "Only one other pub The Sir John Stirling Maxwell in Glasgow had been added to the previously published list."