These are the Furness pubs in the Good Beer Guide 2024

The guide surveys the pubs across the UK and offers 'the definitive beer drinker's guide for those seeking the best pints in the nation's pubs.'

There are 910 new pubs in the guide, five of which are in south Cumbria.

Here is the list of pubs featured in the guide (new entries in bold) in our region: 

• Drunken Duck Barngates
• Duke of Edinburgh Barrow
• King’s Arms Hawcoat
• Manor Arms Broughton
• Engine Cark
• Royal Oak Cartmel
• Unsworth’s Yard Cartmel
• Black Bull Coniston
• The Clarence Dalton
• Keg & Kitchen Grange
• Heft High Newton
• Black Dog Dalton
• The Ship Kirkby
• Wellington Loppergarth
• Red Lion Lowick Bridge
• Tower Bank Arms Near Sawrey
• Avanti Capitola Ulverston
• Devonshire Arms Ulverston
• Gather Ulverston
• The Mill Ulverston
• Old Friends Ulverston
• Swan Inn Ulverston

Anthony Hutton, 65, is the landlord of the Tower Bank Arms, in Near Sawrey. He has been in post for 17 and a half years and said that 'most' years the pub has managed to get in the guide. 

He said: "We are very proud to be included in the publication. We take pride in what we offer which is a selection of five real ales hand-pulled - selected on styles, strengths and flavours. We are proud to offer a good selection of Cumbrian ales.

The Tower Bank Arms, Near Sawrey (Image: Google Maps)

"We are very lucky to have a good selection of ales of the finest quality in Cumbria." 

Anthony said his pub was supplied by Hawkshead, Cumbrian Ales and Barngates Breweries, which are all from the area.

This year's guide features a foreword supplied by Bruce Dickinson, the lead singer of heavy metal band Iron Maiden. The cover is of Iron Maiden's mascot 'Eddie' drinking beer. 

The launch event for the new guide was at Signature Brewery in Walthamstow, London on September 27. Iron Maiden's signature beer Trooper was on draught in recognition of Bruce Dickinson's involvement in the guide.