The pub, which is the reigning CAMRA UK National Pub of the Year has been announced as the Shropshire Pub of the Year and Shropshire Cider Pub of the Year in the latest round of the Pub of the Year competition.

Then at the Midland Food, Drink and Hospitality Awards night this Monday, landlady Grace Goodlad collected the award for Midlands Best Traditional Pub.

Grace said: “I was stunned and surprised to hear us being announced as the winners of the award, as always it is a testament to the great team we have.”

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The Shrewsbury and West Shropshire Branch of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA), the organisation which fights for traditional beer, cider and pubs, today announced the winners of the 2025 Pubs and Clubs of the Year Competition for Shrewsbury and West Shropshire. The overall big winner is The Bailey Head.

The West Shropshire area has 240 pubs and clubs selling real ale. In the first stage of the Pub of the Year competition, Branch members visit pubs and score the beer quality. Members then vote on the overall experience in these pubs to produce a shortlist of pubs – three in Shrewsbury, three in West Shropshire market towns and four from rural West Shropshire.

Shortlisted pubs are visited anonymously by experienced surveyors who mark the pub on beer quality and knowledge, cleanliness, commitment to the community and CAMRA, and service and overall experience using a nationally agreed scheme. This year’s competition was again finely balanced, with all the finalists within only a few marks of each other. The Branch overall winner goes on to compete with pubs across the country to win CAMRA’s Pub of the Year for the whole of the UK.

A parallel process takes place to find the Branch Cider Pub of The Year, and the Bailey Head also came out top in that competition.

Competition co-ordinator Norrie Porter said “The Bailey Head, which was declared CAMRA’s Regional Cider Pub of The Year and overall National Pub of The Year for 2024, really is an exceptional pub, offering great quality to a well-formed local community but also attracting many visitors to the town”.

Owners Grace Goodlad and Duncan Borrowman said “It is amazing to have won the Shrewsbury & West Shropshire Pub of the Year and Cider Pub of the Year awards again. It is an incredibly tough competition with almost 250 venues in an area with many superb pubs. I am incredibly grateful to our wonderful team, fabulous regulars and the people of Oswestry for their fantastic support”

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We are delighted to be in the final four for Society of Independent Brewers – SIBA UK’s Best Independent Beer Bar or Pub – Rural for the seventh time in eight years!

It is great for North Shropshire as this year we are joined by The Crafty Dragon Whitchurch.

Also in the final four is The Brewers 1841 belonging to our friends at Ossett Brewery.

You can read the SIBA press release with all of the finalists here.

All of the previous years results are here.

The SIBA Business Awards 2025 will be presented on Wednesday 19th March at BeerX UK in Liverpool by acclaimed beer author, journalist, broadcaster and Sunday Times beer columnist Pete Brown.

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