J D Wetherspoon plan to close an additional three pubs in the new year, bringing the total number on the market to 42.

The Postal Order in Worcester, which will close on January 9, The Sun reports.

Also shutting in the new year is the The Edmund Halley in Lewisham which will close its doors on December 31.

Wetherspoons has also confirmed The Willow Grove in Southport will close in early 2023.

Further locations are set to close, with at least another 39 up for sale at the moment.

These will remain open and trading until they are sold.

In September, the chain confirmed that it was planning to sell 32 pubs.

Last month, a further seven pubs were put up for sale.

Pubs up for sales include:

  • · Barnsley – Silkstone Inn
  • · Beaconsfield – Hope & Champion
  • · Bexleyheath – Wrong ‘Un
  • · Bournemouth – Christopher Creeke
  • · Cheltenham – Bank House
  • · Durham – Water House
  • · Halifax – Percy Shaw
  • · Hanham – Jolly Sailor
  • · Harrow – Moon on the Hill
  • · Hove – Cliftonville Inn
  • · London Battersea – Asparagus
  • · London East Ham – Miller’s Well
  • · London Eltham – Bankers Draft
  • · London Forest Gate – Hudson Bay
  • · London Forest Hill – Capitol
  • · London Hornsey – Toll Gate
  • · London Holborn – Penderel’s Oak
  • · London Islington – Angel
  • · London Palmers Green – Alfred Herring
  • · Loughborough – Moon & Bell
  • · Loughton – Last Post
  • · Mansfield – Widow Frost
  • · Middlesbrough – Resolution
  • · Purley – Foxley Hatch
  • · Redditch – Rising Sun
  • · Sevenoaks - Sennockian
  • · Southampton – Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis
  • · Stafford – Butler’s Bell
  • · Watford – Colombia Press
  • · West Bromwich – Billiard Hall
  • · Willenhall – Malthouse
  • · Wirral – John Masefield