A 60-year-old man has completed a five-year car-free pub crawl after visiting every establishment listed in the Good Beer Guide.

Real ale fan Stuart Ashby of Shoreham, West Sussex, drank a pint in each of the 700 pubs named in the 1990 edition of the book, finishing at The Lamb in Yapton, the Daily Mail reports.

Ashby said: "When there is no public transport I hitch-hike. I don't think anything of it. Enough people stop to get me from A to B and people are interested when they find out where I am going.

"I do a lot of walking, which stops me putting on more weight than I would otherwise. If it needs doing then I'll travel as far as I have to by whatever means to make it to a pub on the guide."

He added: 'I've had some wonderful times and some scary times. I once travelled to a pub in South Bermondsey and the place was shut at 5pm so I banged on the door for a bit only to be greeted by a very angry man and his shotgun.

"I left that one pretty quickly. I did go back later, very discreetly, because I had to have a pint from there so I could cross it off my list."

The most remote pub on his journey was an establishment off the coast of Devon on Lundy Island, requiring a four-hour ferry trip.

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