{"id":708365,"date":"2026-07-24T06:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T06:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/708365\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T06:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T06:25:13","slug":"witney-named-most-expensive-place-for-a-pint-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/708365\/","title":{"rendered":"Witney named most expensive place for a pint in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Witney was revealed to sell the most expensive single drink in the whole of the United Kingdom\u00a0with a pint costing up to \u00a37, as of last July.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This was 50p more expensive than the priciest pint in London, and three times more expensive than the cheapest pint found in West Sussex.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/26404362.oxfordshire-woman-injured-falling-pothole\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Oxfordshire woman &#8216;injured&#8217; after falling down sinkhole<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Research was conducted from the Online Marketing Surgery and MG Timber, a UK manufacturer of outdoor furniture, to rank the cheapest and most expensive towns and cities to buy a pint of beer nationally.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Based on data sourced from the cost of living database Numbeo\u00a0in May 2025, the report also gave insight into the wider affordability of dining out, with average prices for a three-course meal for two also included.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The national average for a domestic beer across the UK was \u00a35\u00a0which went up to \u00a36.50 in London and \u00a36.20 in Oxford.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A three-course meal for two at a mid-range restaurant\u00a0would set you back an average of \u00a365\u00a0across the UK which was cheaper in Oxford at \u00a358 on average, but went up to a shocking \u00a380 in London.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/26404400.helicopter-search-headington-teens-stole-e-scooter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Police helicopter search in Headington to track down teens<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The most expensive towns for a pint after Witney at \u00a37 were Lewisham in London at \u00a36.50, followed by Brighton in East Sussex and Godalming in Surrey tied at a pricey \u00a36.30.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The cheapest areas for a beer were named as Arun in West Sussex, where a pint cost just \u00a32, followed by Burnley in Lancashire, at \u00a32.50 and Llandudno in Wales at \u00a32.71.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  According to the Office for National Statistics, the retail price index of a draught lager, per pint, was \u00a34.83 in the UK in January 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Witney was revealed to sell the most expensive single drink in the whole of the United Kingdom\u00a0with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-708365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}