The Open Guide to London: the free London guide

The basic premise of the pub crawl is to visit a succession of pubs, rather than spending the entire evening or day in a single establishment. London offers an excellent choice of themes for your pub crawl.

Area-based crawls

The simplest pub crawl idea is to visit a number of pubs in a given area, for example Soho, or Holborn.

• Aidan's London Pub Crawls lists several area-based pub crawls, with maps showing the location of the pubs and interesting historical information on the areas covered.

• In Wheels We Trust organise rickshaw pub crawls. You choose the area of the crawl, and the driver will work out a route. The first beer is on them.

• LONDONcrawlOffers regular, guided pub crawls in London. Runs every Monday and Tuesday night starting at 7pm.

• beerintheevening.com's pub crawl generator will attempt to generate a crawl originating in a particular area. You can choose the number of pubs you want to visit, and the maximum distance between them.

• BarCrawl's pub crawl creator Will generate a google map of a random pub crawl in your selected area or between 2 chosen pubs. Also can create your own, some user created London ones displayed here, such as the London Monopoly crawl

I plan to put together some pre-defined pub crawls, which give a cross section of types of pub and breweries etc. --IvorW

• Belgravia Crawl
• [London Bridge Pub Crawl]?
• London Wall Pub Crawl
• [City of London Pub Crawl]?
• [Shoreditch Pub Crawl]?

IvorW/todo

River crawls

Start at a suitable pub on the riverbank, and travel along the bank in one direction, visiting pubs you pass on the way. For example, you could start at the [Old Thameside Inn]?, and take in the Anchor, the Founders Arms, and [Doggett's Coat and Badge]?.

Tube line or bus route crawls

Travel along one of the Tube lines or bus routes, visiting a pub at every stop.

• beerintheevening.com's pub crawl page describes crawls including various parts of the Northern line and the K5 bus route.

• fancyapint.com has the facility to list pubs near a given Tube station

• Search Google for pages on the popular Circle Line Pub Crawl

• Circle Line Pub Crawl, done by several people who contribute to the Guide

Other themes

• Search Google for pages on the Monopoly Board Pub Crawl

• Monopubly.co.uk - Monopoly Crawl routes around the famous streets of London

• monopolypubcrawl.org.uk for Monopoly Pub Crawl routes

• beerintheevening.com's pub crawl page has several interesting ideas

• Pubs with Beer Gardens (there are lots of these; it might be a plan to combine this with other criteria)