A SOMERSET town's Wetherspoon pub has been revealed to sell one of the cheapest pints in the UK.

Wellington's Iron Duke Wetherspoon pub has been highlighted after an interactive map revealed it sells one of the Wetherspoon chain's cheapest pints.

Anyone who's been inside the Iron Duke in Wellington will know what a magnificent building it is.

This is largely because this Wetherspoon pub was once the town hall and dates back more than 150 years.

At the time of this article, The Iron Duke, in Wellington's town centre, sells a pint of Carling, its lowest-priced pint, at £2.63.

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The chain, also known as “Spoons”, has 809 pubs in the UK as of September 2024. But it announced the closure of 40 of its pubs in 2022.

Now the pub chain has reportedly put 17 up for sale, 14 of which are under offer. “Under offer” means a buyer has made an offer that the seller is considering.

The cheapest Wetherspoon pint of Carling in the UK resides in The High Main, Newcastle, with a pint priced at £2.29.

The chain's most expensive Carling comes as no surprise, as London's Stansted Airport charges £6.30 for a pint.

The cheapest you can get a pint in London is The Coronet near Holloway and Highbury - which costs £2.88.

Speaking in an interview with The Sun, Wetherspoons boss Tim Martin revealed why Wetherspoon prices are so low: "We’ve got bigger pubs than average and we’ve got very long-term relationships with our beer suppliers, so they know that we're not buying it for three months or six months.

"There’s no real secret really, we sell a lot of beer."

Tim, who was knighted in 2023, said that he had been inspired by US retail giant Walmart, which used to own Asda, which undercut its competitors on price because it sold more than anyone else.

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He also revealed that Wetherspoon buys almost all of the Greene King’s Ruddles beer, the pub chain's cheapest beer.

"Sam Walton used to say ‘We sell three for two’, and that’s the truth of Wetherspoons, Tim added.

"Our average sales per pub are probably far more than double most pubs."