The pubs
17 pubs across Didsbury Village, West Didsbury, East Didsbury and Withington. No single route visits them all. Pick one on the routes page, or use this list to swap a pub in or out.
Didsbury Village
- The Didsbury Food
A large, food-led pub on Didsbury Green, opposite Fletcher Moss Gardens. Several separate areas, a glass-roofed dining room and a big yard outside that fills up in summer.
- Hours
- Sat 09:00–23:00 · Sun 09:00–22:00 · Mon–Fri 09:00–23:00
- Address
- 852 Wilmslow Road, Didsbury, M20 2SG
- Formerly
- The Didsbury Inn, The Church Inn
- Ye Olde Cock Inn Food
An old inn on Didsbury Green, next door to The Didsbury. Low ceilings, a small snug at the front and a large garden at the back.
- Hours
- Sat 12:00–23:00 · Sun 12:00–22:00 · Mon–Fri 12:00–23:00
- Address
- 848 Wilmslow Road, Didsbury, M20 2RN
- Formerly
- Loch Fyne at The Old Cock
- Famous Crown Food
A traditional Victorian pub with wood panelling, settles, tiled floors and a real fire. It has plenty of nooks and corners, so it feels like several small bars. Locals still call it The Crown.
- Hours
- Sat 12:00–00:00 · Sun–Thu 12:00–23:00 · Fri 12:00–00:00
- Address
- 770 Wilmslow Road, Didsbury, M20 2DR
- Formerly
- The Crown
- The Royal Oak Food
The village local. Several rooms around a big horseshoe bar lined with old porcelain spirit vats.
- Hours
- Daily 12:00–23:00
- Address
- 729 Wilmslow Road, Didsbury, M20 6WF
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A Hydes pub on William Street. Two traditional snugs at the front open into a big, bright conservatory and a terraced garden at the back.
- Hours
- Sat 12:00–00:00 · Sun–Thu 12:00–23:00 · Fri 12:00–00:00
- Address
- 1 William Street, Didsbury, M20 6RQ
- Formerly
- The Albert
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A one-room traditional local just round the corner on Barlow Moor Road, with a different feel to most of the village. TV sport, darts, and DJs playing folk or Motown a couple of nights a week.
- Hours
- Sat 11:00–23:00 · Sun 11:00–22:00 · Mon–Fri 11:00–23:00
- Address
- 3 Barlow Moor Road, Didsbury, M20 6TN
- Kennedy's Food
An Irish bar in one of the village's best-known pub buildings, with a bright orange-red front. Inside it's mostly high tables and stools, with a snug and a vault.
- Hours
- Sat 11:00–00:30 · Sun–Thu 11:00–23:00 · Fri 11:00–00:30
- Address
- 700 Wilmslow Road, Didsbury, M20 2DN
- Formerly
- The Clock Tower, Neptune, Grey Mare, Cavalcade, Squires, Wellington Hotel
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A popular beer house with bare boards, a panelled snug at the front, and a long room that goes a lot further back than it looks. Cask ales and Pieminister pies.
- Hours
- Sat 12:00–00:30 · Sun–Thu 12:00–23:30 · Fri 12:00–00:30
- Address
- 667 Wilmslow Road, Didsbury, M20 6RA
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One room with bare brick walls and big windows onto Wilmslow Road, sister to the Salmon of Knowledge in the city centre.
- Hours
- Sat 12:00–23:30 · Sun 12:00–22:00 · Tue 16:00–22:00 · Wed–Thu 12:00–22:00 · Fri 12:00–23:30
- Closed
- Monday
- Address
- 655-657 Wilmslow Road, Didsbury, M20 6RA
- Formerly
- The Dockyard, Stokers Arms, O'Neill's, Times Square
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An old-fashioned local at the north end of the village. A narrow front bar and a back room with darts, a TV and a card table.
- Hours
- Sat 12:00–23:00 · Sun 12:00–22:30 · Mon–Fri 12:00–23:00
- Address
- 682 Wilmslow Road, Didsbury, M20 2DN
- The Head of Steam Food
A beer bar with booths, bare boards and a long bar. The full beer list scrolls on two screens behind the bar.
- Hours
- Sat 12:00–00:00 · Sun 10:00–22:00 · Mon–Thu 12:00–23:00 · Fri 12:00–00:00
- Address
- 653 Wilmslow Road, Didsbury, M20 6QZ
- Formerly
- The Sanctuary, Varsity, Hogs Head
- Slug and Lettuce Food
A modern two-floor bar next to Didsbury Village tram stop. Loud, bright and busy, with plenty of seating inside and out.
- Hours
- Sat 10:00–00:30 · Sun 10:00–21:30 · Mon–Wed 11:00–22:00 · Thu 11:00–23:00 · Fri 11:00–00:30
- Address
- 651 Wilmslow Road, Didsbury, M20 6QZ
West Didsbury
- The Woodstock Arms Food
A big Victorian house on Barlow Moor Road with original features, a wide wooden staircase and gardens. Two floors of equally good space.
- Hours
- Sat 12:00–01:00 · Sun 12:00–22:30 · Mon–Thu 12:00–23:00 · Fri 12:00–01:00
- Address
- 139 Barlow Moor Road, West Didsbury, M20 2DY
- The Metropolitan Food
West Didsbury's busiest pub. A tall dining room with a hammer-beam roof and a large, mostly covered garden in the old stables, with its own bar in summer.
- Hours
- Sat 10:00–00:00 · Sun–Tue 10:00–23:00 · Wed–Thu 10:00–23:30 · Fri 10:00–00:00
- Address
- 2 Lapwing Lane, West Didsbury, M20 2WS
- Formerly
- Midland Hotel
- The Railway Food
A small Joseph Holt pub opposite The Metropolitan. A narrow entrance leads to a high-stool snug, a panelled lounge, a room with a fireplace and a bigger lounge at the back. Old photos of Didsbury on the walls.
- Hours
- Sat 12:00–00:00 · Sun 12:00–23:00 · Mon 16:00–23:00 · Tue–Thu 14:00–23:00 · Fri 12:00–00:00
- Address
- 3 Lapwing Lane, West Didsbury, M20 2NT
East Didsbury
- The Gateway Food
A big interwar roadhouse on the corner of Wilmslow Road and Kingsway, run by Wetherspoon. Lots of rooms and seating, an island bar, a garden and a real fire.
- Hours
- Sat 08:00–00:00 · Sun–Thu 08:00–23:30 · Fri 08:00–00:00
- Address
- 882 Wilmslow Road, East Didsbury, M20 5PG
Withington
- The Red Lion Food
A low-ceilinged vault at the front leads back to a bigger bar, a large conservatory and a huge garden.
- Hours
- Sat 11:30–00:00 · Sun 12:00–23:00 · Mon–Tue 11:30–23:00 · Wed–Fri 11:30–00:00
- Address
- 532 Wilmslow Road, Withington, M20 4BT