The best pubs in County Durham have been revealed as part of this year's CAMRA beer guide. 

The Campaign for Real Ale’s (CAMRA) Good Beer Guide – the UK’s best-selling beer and pub guide – is celebrating its 51st edition.

The Guide, which surveys 4,500 of the best pubs across the UK, is the definitive beer drinker’s guide for those seeking the best pints in the nation’s pubs.

Read more: 16 pubs that have made it into CAMRA's Good Beer Guide 2024

The Good Beer Guide helps beer lovers take a barometer of the local beer scene, and this year’s Guide tells the story of an industry under threat.

CAMRA National Executive Ben Wilkinson said: “The recent, disgraceful events surrounding the Crooked House pub in the West Midlands captured the nation’s attention, but while that particular scandal made the national news, so many similar cases fly under the radar.

“CAMRA is responding on two fronts. Our Pub Heritage group is leading the way in safeguarding historic pubs, and fighting for them to be given the protection they deserve as part of our cultural heritage.

"But elsewhere, we’re working to expose the weaknesses in the planning system that affect all pubs. We want to see councils in England get the enforcement powers they need to tackle any illegal conversions or demolitions of pubs – including the power to order them to be rebuilt brick by brick if necessary.”

Here are 9 of the pubs in Darlington that have made it into the 2024 CAMRA list: 

  • Britannia, 1 Archer Street, DL3 6LR
  • Crafty Merlins Bottle Shop  and Micropub, 6 Bucktons Yard, DL3 7QL
  • Darlington Snooker Club, 1 Corporation Road, DL3 6AE (corner of Northgate)
  • Half Moon, 130 Northgate, DL1 1QS
  • House of Hop, 4B Houndgate, DL1 5RL
  • Number Twenty 2, 22 Coniscliffe Road, DL3 7RG
  • Old Yard Tapas Bar, 98 Bondgate, DL3 7JY
  • ORB Micropub, 28 Coniscliffe Road, DL3 7RG
  • Quakerhouse, 2 Mechanics Yard, DL3 7QF