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Oldham named one of the best places in the UK for a pub crawl
Some unexpected news just in today…
Oldham is one of the best places in the country for a good old fashioned pub crawl, party ‘experts’ have claimed this week.
According to data from Nomis, the town’s vast number of boozers makes it the perfect spot to hop from one pub to the next.
With forty-nine pubs per ten square miles, Oldham made it to joint seventh on the list of destinations, sharing the spot with neighbours Liverpool and Darlington.
Taking second and third place is South Shields and Shrewsbury, with Bristol, Bath and Norwich also making the cut.
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Huddersfield came in first place, with the Yorkshire town having a massive sixty-five pubs per ten square miles.
The list was calculated using certified data revealing the number of pubs and bars in major towns and cities in England.
The sizes of each town or city were then divided by the number of pubs in each location, resulting in a list of the most dense pub crawl destinations.
A Stag Weekends & Hen Weekends spokesman said: “Our findings prove that you can sometimes discover the best nights out in the most unexpected places – and at the very least, you won’t run out of pubs to visit.”
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This good news will undoubtedly come as a relief to Oldham’s residents after an American visitor recently slammed the town as one of the ‘worst places’ to live in England.
In a brutal YouTube video, the man described Oldham as ‘another not so good town in the North’, and complained about the lack of a ‘single tower to boost the town’s image’.
He said: “You certainly won’t have a hard time agreeing that this is one of the worst places, even in the UK.
“Corroborating that, the Office of National Statistics once announced it as Britain’s most deprived town… According to one resident, Oldham looks as though the government has been performing nuclear testing in the area.”