Indie Beer Bolton

Number of pubs: 6

Walking Distance:  approx ½ mile

Suggested Start Point: One for the Road in Bolton Markets BL1 1TJ.  Close to Bolton bus and train station. Note that it is only open during Market opening times.

• One for the Road serves a regular house beer from Deeply Vale Brewery in Bury and other pumps have a great selection of cask beers from all over the country.

• Northern Monkey Bar, home to the brewery of the same name based only a mile away.

• Spinning Mule, the town-centre Wetherspoons, often with a beer from Bolton’s Bank Top brewery amongst an excellent lineup.

• Ye Olde Man & Scythe, a Bolton landmark and reputedly one of England’s oldest pubs.  You’ll find Bank Top Flat Cap and Oakham Citra alongside other indie beers.

• The Millstone, a backstreet pub in the centre of town, often a quiet oasis on a busy evening, serving Joseph Holt Bitter.

• Great Ale at the Vaults is a bar you’ll need to hunt out, inside and beneath the Market Place Shopping Centre and cinema complex.  It’s a hidden gem serving a Deeply Vale beer alongside other intriguing guests.