Samuel Smith’s pub locations, London & UK

I created this map to answer the eternal Sam Smith's question: “How many of these great places are there?”.

Well, in early 2009, with a little help from a friend called Phill I listed the 10 most central Samuel Smiths pubs in London.

After countless requests to have more pubs added (which I didn't have time to do), I finally gave in and added a feature to power the map from a Google spreadsheet of Sam Smiths Locations. This way anyone could add and amend the pub listings! You can see the spreadsheet here.

Now, with the help of many we've got 0 pubs listed, and more and more are opened & added all the time.

To see if you can help and and contribute to this map please see the help out section.

Samuel Smith established the Samuel Smith's brewery in 1886 (or shortly after) in his home town of Tadcaster, North Yorkshire.

He had inherited his premises from his uncle, William Smith, who owned the John Smith's brewery next door.

The John Smith's brewery has since sold out horribly, moved its brewery away from Tadcaster and now produces uninteresting smooth-flow beer under the Heineken umbrella. [Gretton, 2010]

Samuel Smith's however has kept its independence and still brews all its excellent beer from its original Tadcaster brewery.

In recent years, Sam Smith's have also been operating pubs across the UK. These pubs, usually decorated in a Victorian style, sell only Sam Smith's brand beer at very affordable prices.

In summary, Sam Smith's' pubs offer excellent independently brewed beer at astonishingly low prices which is why I'm a massive fun of all that is Sam Smith's!

I'm a web designer / developer based in London.

I run Igloo, a graphic design / web developement agency.

You can see the rest of my feeble website here, but to be honest there's very little to see! James Gretton

A most excellent chap from codebrewery.co.uk has developed an iPhone application called "Find-a-Smith" using our Sam Smith's data. For more information see the Find-a-Smith webpage or download it directly on your iPhone!