West Yorkshire is not exactly short of cracking beer gardens. As such, there's always some lively debate as to which is the best.
But now, new data has been used to definitively reveal the area's most popular watering holes via an interactive map created by Roché Awnings.
Using Google maps data, it's highlighted nine pubs in the West Yorkshire area - crowning them amongst some of the best in England.
Focusing on the top three most popular beer gardens in each UK city, the map shows off locals favourite pubs in Leeds, Bradford and Wakefield using Google statistics from March 2021.
Read on to discover the most popular pubs in your area.
Wakefield
The King’s Arms, Heath Common
Built in the early 1700s and converted into a public house in 1841, The King's Arms boasts beautiful gardens to the rear, with further acres of common grassland surrounding the pub. Set in a relatively rural location, it's the perfect place to relax peacefully on the common with a beer or two. It serves four regular beers: Ossett Silver King, Ossett Yorkshire Blonde, Ossett Yorkshire Brunette and Rat White Rat.
The Black Horse Pub, Wakefield city centre
Known as the home of the Sunday sesh, this city centre pub in Wakefield was built in 1818 and features a large patio beer garden overlooking Westgate as if from a ship's stern. The pub has a really popular bottomless brunch offering and serves up a mix of real ales and lagers, craft gins and cocktails.
The Fox and Hounds, Newmillerdam
This family-run pub is the oldest in the Newmillerdam and Sandal area, regularly serving up classic cask ales Timothy Taylor's Landlord and Jennings Cumberland. Situated in one of the nicest areas of Wakefield, the pub is surrounded by woods and a lake. Its beer garden stretches across the front of the pub, with a second terraced seating area at the rear. The Fox and Hounds also claims to be the only pub in Yorkshire to serve Peroni on draught.
Leeds
Duck and Drake, Leeds City Centre
This historic, dog-friendly pub in the centre of Leeds is known for its fine cask ales, pies and peas. It also has a fabulous beer garden, considered a peaceful haven in the midst of the bustling city centre. Unpretentious with a good mix of customers, it's beer garden is one of Leed's best kept secrets.
Lamb and Flag, Church row
With a gorgeous sun-trap rear courtyard, this nineteenth century Leeds pub is a firm city favourite. Tastefully restored, it's just a stone's throw from Leeds Minster and serves four regular local beers: Leeds Best, Leeds Midnight Bell, Leeds Pale and Leeds Yorkshire Gold.
Midnight Bell, Holbeck Urban Village
This award-winning local brewery-run pub has a pleasant courtyard, with a hatch that serves customers outside straight from the bar. Attracting a mixed clientele, it's food is highly lauded and considered by locals to go far above that of your typical gastropub.
Bradford
Shoulder of Mutton
Q Gardens
The Corn Dolly
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Leeds pizza shop hailed ‘exceptional’ and ‘best in the UK’ by major reviewer
A Leeds pizza takeaway has received a glowing review from popular review duo.
Edges Pizza opened up their first permanent spot in Leeds back in June this year, after making a name for themselves slinging out pizzas at multiple pop-ups across the city.
Owners Grace and Edge from Harrogate opened Edges Pizza two years ago, taking inspiration from trips to New York over the years.
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Their pizzas are a love letter to the class New York slice, think thin and crispy rather than chewy and floppy. But above all else, think absolutely delicious.
And now, they've caught the attention of a major review page, with Bite Twice Food Reviews (a page with almost 300k followers) paying Edges a visit.
The food review duo of Gerry del Guercio and Paul Delany popped up in Holbeck beneath the arches to get their hands on a pizza, and the outcome is brilliant.
In the video, Bite Twice said that the pizza is 'f**cking exceptional' and up there with 'one of the best pizzas in the UK'.
Before even taking a bite, they said: "On aesthetic, I don't think anywhere in the UK is doing pizza like this".
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Then after the first bite, they go on to say: "There are very few pizzas in the UK that create this, I’m a little bit blown away".
As Londoners themselves, they go on to say that Edges is 'easily hitting with the best that we’ve got down south'.
And if that's not high praise enough, they sign off the video saying: "Leeds has got an absolute gem. I give this a stamp so hard my foot went through the pizza. Edges. Don Level."
Yorkshire-set Christmas film by Leeds director starring Richard E. Grant set to hit UK cinemas next month
Clementine Hall
A brand-new Christmas film is hitting cinemas nationwide next month - and it’s a proper Leeds success story.
Jack Spring directed his first feature film at just 19 years old and has spent the last decade carving out a career in independent film, as well as co-founding Leeds-based production company Shush Films.
His first movie, Destination: Dewsbury, was shot just down the road in - you guessed it - Dewsbury. And after moving to Leeds from Grimsby, Jack became determined to build his business from the city, putting down roots and growing his production company here.
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Now, after years of working on independent projects, Jack has taken his biggest leap yet with a brand-new Christmas film, Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint.
Set in Yorkshire, Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint follows Aubrey Flint, a reclusive model soldier painter with a lifelong hatred of Christmas, who is sentenced to community service at Willow Lodge - a retirement home on the brink of closure.
Roped into helping with a chaotic production of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Aubrey clashes with its interesting set of residents...
And the cast is about as star-studded as it gets, featuring Richard E. Grant, John Bradley, Celia Imrie, Adjoa Andoh, Sophia Di Martino, Adrian Rawlins and Kiell Smith-Bynoe.
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The heartwarming festive comedy will hit cinemas nationwide on Friday 6 November - a huge milestone for a Leeds-based director and production company, taking a homegrown Yorkshire story to audiences across the country.
You just can't beat a proper wholesome British Christmas film, so you can best believe we'll be watching in the cinema, popcorn in hand.
Georgina Pellant -
30th April 2021 
