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Welcome to Roaming the Ridings

A Yorkshire Pub Guide looking for the best Cask and Craft Pubs in the Ridings,

with the odd rural and historical pub thrown in for good measure.

Check out our Town & City Guides, York Pub Guide Map and read our Reviews on this site and across social media.

Flying Duck, Ilkley. @flyingduckpub @wharfedalebrewery __________ The Flying Duck has an extensive history, originally built in 1709 as a farmhouse and one of the oldest buildings in Ilkley, it has gone through many changes of use over the centuries
Fuggle & Golding, Ilkley @fugglegolding __________ From the outside Fuggle & Golding looks just like another traditional shop along the busy Leeds Road in Ilkley, and in the past that's exactly what it had been. But since it opened in 2015
Great day out seeing the old crew in Cawood, a nice end to my involvement with the beer festival. I hope it carries on for many years to come. Now the long journey back to Otley. Thanks to all the Ski Club people, another superb day out by the rive
Two buses, two trains and two hours later and we're finally back in Cawood by the riverside for the beer festival and some quality beers. 🫡 And I should know as I chose them. 🤭🫣😆 Cheers to the bank holiday! 🍻 #beerfestvial #yorkbeer #cawoodbf
The Black Hat, Ilkley @ilkleyblackhat __________ The Black Hat is a fairly standard Pub Co pub situated opposite All Saints' Church towards the northern end of Ilkley. Renamed in 2014 in reference to a charity cricket match first held in 1880, where
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May 2025 Update

Welcome to Roaming the Ridings, this site is always a work in progress so new content will be added all the time as we continue our roaming around Yorkshire, so be sure to pop back soon and follow us on our socials.

The latest update to the site is the Ilkley page which you can find under West Yorkshire. I’ve also added the Ilkley Pub Tour and Knaresborough Pub Tour to the Town & City Guides, full updated reviews for Knaresborough are coming soon.

As we head towards Summer we have plenty of trips out planned, check out the Event details below. This year is our 10th anniversary of The Four Towers Challenge in York so we’re hoping to get as many people as possible out for that on the 28th June. Maybe see you there?

About

Established in 2023 Roaming the Ridings is a Yorkshire Pub Guide born from the wanderlust of Within the Walls. Since 2012 Within the Walls had been on a mission to visit and review all the Pubs within and just beyond York's City Walls, but now that mission has evolved to head out into the rest of Yorkshire to find the very best Cask and Craft focused pubs in the Ridings, with the odd rural and historical pub thrown in for good measure. All in the hope of helping to inform on the very best drinking locations that God's own county has to offer. 

Events

We runs several Pub Tour Events around Yorkshire each year, we encourage you to come roaming and explore with us. All are welcome to join our friendly group.

Visit our Facebook Event page via the button below for details on what we've got coming up or join our WhatsApp Broadcast Channel for updates.

The Roaming Map

This is our Roaming Google Map, listing all the pubs we have visited so far.

  • Green = Reviewed

  • Blue = Review coming soon…

If you want to suggest any places we should add to our list to visit please get in touch via our Social Media channels.