Full list of Wetherspoon pubs that could close in 2025

Josh Milton and Sara Odeen-Isbister

Published March 21, 2025 5:00pm Updated March 22, 2025 11:38am

Wetherspoons will serve 99p pints at 750 pubs across the UK next year — The pub giant’s end goal is to operate 1,000 pubs – just 200 or so more to go (Picture: 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, all while trying to resist hiking food and drink prices (but axing some menu favourites).

Next to shut their doors for good include two city centre pubs: The Quay in Poole, Dorset and The Spon Gate in Coventry.

The Quay in Poole will close on Sunday as the keys are handed over to Hall & Woodhouse, a Dorset-based brewery.

The Spon Gate, one of three pubs owned by Wetherspoons in Coventry city centre, will be closing May 25.

But there are also 11 new branches opening up in spots across the UK this year.

J D Wetherspoons in Trinity Square, London — The number of Wetherspoons pubs in the UK has fallen by around 150 in the past decade (Picture: Getty)

And owner Tim Martin hopes to open even more.

Wetherspoons opened last year a Spoons in London Waterloo. The capital will welcome several more, including one based in the former London Dungeon on Tooley Street in August.

Wetherspoons enjoyed sales growth of nearly 8% over the 12 months leading up to July when it published its most recent trading update.

Yet it has sold or surrendered the lease on many of its pubs.

The Wetherspoons 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.

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.

K937H4 Customers sitting at tables on a quiet afternoon at JD Wetherspoon pub restaurant (often called Wetherspoons), Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, UK. — Business took a battering during the cost-of-living crisis (Picture: Alamy Stock Photo)

Wetherspoons regularly reviews which branches are up for sale and sometimes takes them off the market. One up for grabs includes the Ivor Davies in Cardiff.

It previously said most of the recent closures are of venues which are ‘smaller and older’, or where the company has a second pub reasonably nearby.

The George in Wanstead called last orders for the final time in October, but was ‘rescued’ by the Urban Pubs and Bars chain, reopening as The George & Dragon.

JD Wetherspoon boss Sir Tim Martin has trimmed down his roster of pubs from 950 a decade ago to around 800 today.

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

Tim Martin said in the latest trading update: ‘The gradual recovery in sales and profits, following the pandemic, has continued in the current financial year.

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

‘Total sales are, again, at record levels, with fewer pubs.’

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.

‘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.

The goal, the company said in its financial report in March, is to open 1,000 pubs.

The report said: ‘In spite of a reduction in the overall number of pubs, sales have continued to increase – total sales are now about one-third higher than in 2015, when the number of pubs peaked, and sales per pub have increased by about 50% since then.’