URBAN areas have suffered worse for pub closures in the past decade, figures suggest.
Bournemouth has lost more than one in five of its pubs since 2010, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.
In 2010 there were 90 pubs and bars but by 2017 that had fallen to 70.
Christchurch has also lost 20 per cent of its bars, five have closed since 2010, out of 25 originally.
Poole has lost 10 pubs since 2010, or 14 per cent of an original 70.
Pubs have been pointing the finger of blame at the taxman for their troubles, complaining about the duty on beer, VAT levels and the cost of business rates.
Britain's Beer Alliance, a group of organisations in the pub and brewing sector, has started a campaign called Long Live the Local with a petition and calls for people to write to their MP to have beer duty reduced.
Brigid Simmonds, chief executive of the British Beer and Pub Association, said: "We are calling on the Government to cut beer duty in the upcoming November budget.
"Seven in ten alcoholic drinks sold in a pub are beer, so cutting beer duty is the most direct way of helping pubs."
A spokesman for the Treasury said: “Ninety per cent of pubs across the country can benefit from the business rates relief introduced at Budget 2017, which could save them up to £1,000 a year.
“In addition, both businesses and their customers have saved around £3 billion since 2013 thanks to changes to alcohol duty.”
Across the UK 5,745 pubs closed over the period, and there are 54 local authorities where 30 or more shut.
The figures show Purbeck has lost 10 per cent of its pubs since 2010, or five, and North Dorset has also lost five, out of 60. East Dorset has the same number of pubs now as in 2010, 55.
A change in consumer habits, with people drinking at home more often, has been blamed for fewer people visiting pubs.
Tom Stainer of CAMRA, the campaign for real ale, said: "In many areas and villages, they provide the last remaining public meeting space, with meeting halls and post offices already lost.
"They also create jobs and bring money into local areas, which tend to be spent in the local area, as compared to large chain cafes. Many pubs help to support the night time economy in town centres and create safer communities after nightfall."
There are 21 areas of the country that have bucked the decline and have more pubs now than they had in 2010.
Top of the list is East London hipster hangout Hackney, which has a thriving nightlife fuelled, in part, by craft beer. It had 55 more bars in 2017 than it did in 2010.
This is the Echo's list of closed and much-missed Dorset pubs:
BOURNEMOUTH
The Criterion
Daisy O'Briens
The Dolphin
The Fox, Terrace Road
The Gander on the Green
The Grange, Southbourne
The Hare and Hounds
The Horse and Jockey, Redhill
The London Hotel
The Malt & Hops
The Osprey
The Palmerston Arms, Boscombe
The Pig & Whistle, Westbourne
The Poets Corner
The Portman, Boscombe
The Prince of Wales
The Ragged Cat
The Royal Oak, Wimborne Road
The Saxon King
The Seagull
The Smugglers
The Strouden
The White Horse
The Woodman, Branksome
CHRISTCHURCH
The Catherine Wheel
Dukes/The Goose and Timber, Barrack Road
The Eight Bells
The Fairmile
The Fountain
The Golfer's Arms
The New Inn
The New Lodge
The Royalty Inn
POOLE
The Albion, Ringwood Road
The Ansty Arms
The Beehive
The Bell & Crown
The Central Hotel
The Darby's Corner Inn
The Dorset Knob
The Double Six
The Duke of York
The Ferryman
Greenridge, Upton
The Guildhall Tavern
The Jolly Miller
The Oakdale, Canford Heath
Patricks, Ashley Cross
The Port Mahon
The Retreat
The Royal Oak & Gas Tavern
Sandacres Pub
The Sea Witch Hotel
The Shipwrights Arms
The Skittlers
The Swan Inn
The Tatnam
The Waterloo
The White Hart Hotel
WIMBORNE
The Beehive Inn
The Crown & Anchor
The Crown Tap
The Griffin Hotel
The Sir Winston Churchill
The Three Lions
WAREHAM AND SWANAGE
The Lord Nelson
The Purbeck Hotel
The Railway Tavern
EAST DORSET
The Albion
The Coach House Inn, Ferndown
The George
The Greyhound
The Smith Arms, Wimborne
The Struan Country Inn
The Travellers Rest, Three Legged Cross
The Whincroft
NORTH DORSET
The Bugle Horn, Tarrant Gunville
The Coote Arms
The D’Amory Arms
The Greyhound Inn
The Half Moon Inn
The Red Lion
The Rose, Tarrant Hinton
The Star, Sixpenny Handley
The Three Choughs
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