Featuring more than 20 local "smuggling" hostelries, the trail runs from Hawkhurst, Goudhurst and Cranbrook to the Sussex coast at Hastings and Rye.

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The guide also listed other pubs with fine whisky collections, with hostelries in Cheshire, Devon, Northamptonshire and West Yorkshire singled out for particular praise.

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