Staff at the best pubs in Buckinghamshire for grabbing a pint have described being included in the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA)'s Good Beer Guide 2025 as 'fantastic' and 'a really nice thing'.

The guide, which lists 4,500 of the best pubs across the country, has included 53 Buckinghamshire-based boozers in its latest round-up, including 16 new entries.

Newbies to the ranking include – ironically – The Royal Standard of England in Forty Green, which claims to be the oldest pub in England, alongside The Red Lion in Iver, The Green Man in Prestwood, The Crown in Ley Hill and The Royal British Legion in Marlow.

Amelia Jecz, manager at The Royal Standard, described the 900-year-old pub's first appearance in the guide as "a really nice thing", owing to its "unique" and cosy atmosphere and niche practice of only serving beer on tap save for the near extinct Owd Rodger brand.

A staff member at The Crown also said they were "so proud" to feature on the list – describing it as a "fantastic" way to ring in the newly reopened boozer's first birthday this weekend.

And Sophie Varley, secretary of Marlow's Royal British Legion Club, said the recognition came after an "intense" eight month turnaround project to bring the popular venue back from the brink and turn it into a hotspot for local events as well as "one of the cheapest places to buy beer" in the town.

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The 62-year-old added: "I've lived in Marlow since I was four-years-old and I've been coming to the club all my life. We were nearly facing closure last year and people were very down in the dumps, but there's been such a change since then.

"Everyone who works here cares so much about it, and this is a lovely reminder of what we've managed to achieve."

The Good Beer Guide, published for the first time in 1972, reviews thousands of pubs across the UK which are selected by volunteers based on factors including their quality of beer and atmosphere.

CAMRA also took the opportunity of the new list being published to shine a light on the "worrying trends" that continue to plague the hospitality business – warning that many pubs still can't afford to "keep the lights on", with over a thousand closures in the last year alone.

Campaign chairman Ash Corbett-Collins said: “CAMRA’s mission is to ensure support from the government as well as tangible legislation to protect pubs across each nation of the UK.

“By next year’s edition of the guide, we want to be talking about the beer and pub trade growing with the support of communities and parliament alike.”

The 2025 Good Beer Guide is available to buy in full on CAMRA’s website.