Full list of Wetherspoon pubs that could close in 2025

Dozens of boozers shuttered last year (Picture: Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Last orders will be held at more JD Wetherspoons pubs in the coming months – but some might soon be opening near you.

The popular chain shut 26 of its pubs across the country between 2023 and 2024.

But the pub and restaurant chain has long made clear its goal of opening 1,000 branches across Britain.

Spoons revealed Tuesday it plans to open 15 new pubs after seeing like-for-like sales at its pubs jump by 15% in the 13 weeks to April.

Wetherspoons has already opened two new locations in Marlow,Buckinghamshire,and London Waterloo.

Six sites have been confirmed to open later this year,with the remaining nine opening their doors July next year.

The number of Wetherspoons pubs in the UK has fallen by around 150 in the past decade (Picture: Getty)

Last year,the firm opened four franchised pubs with Haven Holiday Parks: The Red Rocks,Devon Cliffs,Devon; The Humber Stone,Cleethorpes

Beach,Lincolnshire; The London Stone,Kent Coast,Kent and The Sir Thomas Haggerston,Haggerston Castle,Northumberland.

JD Wetherspoon boss Sir Tim Martin said in a trading update: ‘The company’s main ambition,as always,is to improve its appeal to staff and customers.

He added: ‘Bearing in mind that recent trading has been helped by favourable weather,the company anticipates a reasonable outcome for the financial year,notwithstanding previously reported wage and tax increases of approximately £1.2million per week.’

Wetherspoons shuttered 30 pubs last year (Picture: Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Martin has trimmed down his roster of pubs from 950 a decade ago to 795.

The company sold or gave up the lease on 30 pubs in 2024,following the closure of 41 locations in 2023.

Most of the recent closures are for ‘smaller and older’ venues,or where the company has a second pub reasonably nearby,Wetherspoons has said.

The boozers under offer are not guaranteed to be sold and could remain open if the sale falls through.

Otherwise,they will likely be closed in the coming months and repurposed or reopened as a pub under different management.

Pints were poured at The George in Wanstead for the final time in October. But it was ‘rescued’ by the Urban Pubs and Bars chain,reopening as The George & Dragon.

Bosses say sales have continued to rise despite losing pubs (Picture: Getty)

The pubs currently under offer include the Ivor Davies in Cardiff. While punters feared it would shut last year,it remains open at the time of writing.

Wetherspoons has long been known for its cut-price beer and food,with the pub chain refusing to increase the cost of its £5.75 breakfast.

But it admitted in January that it had increased the price of some of its drinks and meals by up to 30p.

‘People are happy to go out for a pint if you keep the price competitive. It’s not like buying a sofa,’ Martin told The Guardian last year.

This article was first published on March 21.