Every Closed Pub in Britain, Mapped: 2,222 Lost Locals (Interactive UK Map)

There was no closed pubs UK map that showed every lost local in one place, so we built one. Working from OpenStreetMap, where volunteer mappers tag former pubs as disused or abandoned, we found 2,222 pubs across Great Britain currently marked as closed, geocoded every one, and matched each to its parliamentary constituency, sitting MP and local council. The result is a live, interactive map: https://get-instamaps.com/m/6d9dxf.

The dataset puts numbers on something publicans and regulars already feel. British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) figures show the UK has lost 16,150 pubs since 2000, and roughly 350 more closed in 2025. Our map is a different lens on the same decline: not an industry estimate, but 2,222 individual buildings, each with a name, a postcode and a pin, and, in 2,019 cases, the parliamentary email address of the MP whose constituency it sits in.

Everything below, the regional breakdown, the constituency league table, the Derbyshire cluster, is computed directly from that dataset as of 10 June 2026. The full methodology, including the limitations you should know before quoting any single pin, is at the bottom.

The Headline Numbers

2,222 pubs in Great Britain are currently tagged as closed, disused or abandoned on OpenStreetMap. Every one is geocoded and plotted on the interactive map at https://get-instamaps.com/m/6d9dxf.

Each pin carries more than a location. Click any closed pub and you get its name, postcode, parliamentary constituency, the current MP and their parliamentary email address, the responsible local council, and a direct link to the underlying OpenStreetMap record so you can verify it yourself. Of the 2,222 records, 2,019 include the sitting MP's parliamentary email, which means for over 90% of these lost locals, the person accountable to that community is one click away.

That structure is deliberate. This isn't just a sad picture of decline; it's a working tool. A local reporter can filter to their patch, a campaigner can find every closed pub in their constituency, and an MP's office can check their own number before the question arrives.

The Regional Picture: The South East Leads, the Midlands and the North Close Behind

Mapped closures are spread across every English region, but the distribution is far from even. The South East tops the table, partly a function of how many pubs it had to lose, but the East Midlands and Yorkshire punch well above their population weight.

1. South East, 293 closed pubs

2. East Midlands, 261

3. Yorkshire & the Humber, 259

4. London, 252

5. North West, 207

6. East of England, 185

7. West Midlands, 143

8. South West, 136

9. North East, 136

The MP League Table: Which Constituencies Have Lost the Most Pubs

Because every pin is matched to a 2024-boundary parliamentary constituency, we can rank constituencies by mapped closures, and name the MP who represents each one. This is the table local press and constituents will want to put in front of their member.

Two Derbyshire constituencies share the top spot, and rural northern seats dominate the rest of the top ten, with notable urban exceptions in Nottingham, Birmingham and Hackney.

1. Derbyshire Dales, 24 closed pubs (MP: John Whitby)

2. Amber Valley, 24 (Linsey Farnsworth)

3. York Central, 20 (Rachael Maskell)

4. High Peak, 19 (Jon Pearce)

5. Thirsk and Malton, 19 (Kevin Hollinrake)

6. Bishop Auckland, 19 (Sam Rushworth)

7. Nottingham East, 19 (Nadia Whittome)

8. Birmingham Ladywood, 18 (Shabana Mahmood)

9. Hackney South & Shoreditch, 17 (Dame Meg Hillier)

10. Wetherby & Easingwold, 16 (Sir Alec Shelbrooke)

Derbyshire Is the Epicentre: 67 Lost Pubs Across Three Neighbouring Constituencies

The single most striking pattern in the data sits in Derbyshire. Derbyshire Dales (24) and Amber Valley (24) tie for the most closed pubs of any constituency in Britain, and High Peak (19) ranks joint fourth. The three constituencies share borders, together they account for 67 mapped closed pubs, the densest cluster of lost locals anywhere in the country.

The council data tells the same story from a different angle. Amber Valley Borough Council ranks fifth among all councils with 31 closed pubs, despite covering a fraction of the area of the large unitary authorities above it: North Yorkshire (64), County Durham (59), Leeds (40) and Nottingham (36).

Why Derbyshire? The data doesn't answer that on its own, it's a mix of genuinely hard-hit rural and ex-industrial communities and, plausibly, unusually thorough local OpenStreetMap contributors (see the limitations section). Both explanations are a story. Either Derbyshire has lost more pubs than anywhere else in Britain, or its mappers are documenting a decline the rest of the country hasn't fully recorded yet.

Zoom into the Peak District and the Derwent Valley on the map at https://get-instamaps.com/m/6d9dxf and the cluster is unmissable.

Explore and Embed the Closed Pubs UK Map

The full interactive map is live at https://get-instamaps.com/m/6d9dxf. Pan to your area, click any pin, and you'll see the pub's name, postcode, constituency, MP and their parliamentary email, council, and a link to the source record on OpenStreetMap.

If you're a journalist, blogger or campaigner, the map is built to be reused: use the Embed button on the map page to drop the interactive map into any article or website, and the Request data button to get the underlying dataset, every row, including the MP contact details. No paywall, no sign-up wall for viewing.

All we ask is credit: link to InstaMaps and acknowledge OpenStreetMap contributors, whose volunteer mapping makes the dataset possible.

1. View: https://get-instamaps.com/m/6d9dxf, free, no account needed

2. Embed: the Embed button on the map page generates an iframe that works on any site

3. Raw data: use the Request data button on the map page to get the full 2,222-row dataset

4. Verify: every pin links to its OpenStreetMap record

Methodology & Limitations

Source data: pubs tagged disused:amenity=pub, abandoned:amenity=pub or was:amenity=pub on OpenStreetMap, extracted from a Geofabrik Great Britain extract. These are the standard OSM conventions for marking a pub that has closed but whose building (and often signage) remains.

Enrichment: each pub's coordinates were reverse-geocoded via postcodes.io, the open UK postcode API, which returns the postcode, local council and 2024-boundary parliamentary constituency. MP names and parliamentary email addresses were pulled live from the official UK Parliament Members API. All figures in this article were computed on 10 June 2026.

Now the honest part, the limitations. First, this is a map of pubs recorded as closed on OpenStreetMap, not a census of every pub closure in Britain. OSM coverage depends on volunteer mappers and is uneven: rural Scotland and Northern Ireland in particular are under-reported, and an active local mapping community can inflate an area's count relative to its neighbours. Second, some pins are former pubs long since converted to homes or shops, the tag records that a pub once stood there, not that it closed recently. Verify individual pins (each links to its OSM record) before quoting them. Third, closure dates are rarely recorded in OSM, so the map shows the accumulated stock of lost pubs, not a closure rate over time. For closure-rate figures, use the BBPA's industry statistics cited below.

Story Ideas: What Else Is in This Data

We've published the headline cuts, but the dataset supports plenty of angles we haven't written. If any of these fit your patch or your beat, hit Request data on the map page and we'll send the rows.

1. The local angle: filter the map to any constituency or council and you have a ready-made local story, complete with the MP's contact details for a comment request.

2. The banking-desert overlay: closed pubs, closed bank branches and closed post offices often cluster in the same places, overlaying the datasets would map Britain's hollowed-out high streets.

3. The regional divide: the East Midlands and Yorkshire have more mapped closures than London despite far smaller populations, a per-capita analysis would sharpen that contrast.

4. The Derbyshire deep-dive: 67 closed pubs across three neighbouring constituencies is either Britain's worst pub-closure cluster or its best-documented one. A reporter on the ground could establish which.

5. The accountability follow-up: 2,019 rows include the sitting MP's parliamentary email. Ask the top-ten MPs what they're doing about it and you have a national story.

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