The Duke Of Wellington

Walk up Upper Gloucester Road towards the Lewes Road junction and you'll find the Duke doing what it does best: being a proper neighbourhood pub without any faffing about. This is where you grab a pint of something worth drinking, not some mass-produced lager, and settle in with people who've probably been coming here for years. The food's straightforward—nothing pretentious, just solid pub classics that don't cost a fortune. It's the kind of place that feels like it belongs to the community rather than some corporate chain, and that's exactly why locals keep coming back.