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# jdwetherspoon.com

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## Website

jdwetherspoon.com

Award-Winning Pubs & Hotels Across The UK & Ireland - J D Wetherspoon Find your local Wetherspoon

Checked on 12 Nov 2026, 22:47 Unclaimed

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## Truth score

Truth score 84 out of 100, High truth signals. Customer satisfaction: mostly dissatisfied

84 / 100

High truth signals

## Business details

Category: Pub or bar

Years in business: 43 years

Founded: 1979

Places to visit: 554 restaurants London (39), Leeds (9), Bristol (8), Manchester (7), Liverpool (7) and more

Kind of seller: Sells its own goods or services

Licensed trade: Alcohol, tobacco or vaping

Domain age: 26 years

Address: [Wetherspoon House, Reeds Crescent, Watford, Hertfordshire, WD24 4QL](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=Wetherspoon%20House%2C%20Reeds%20Crescent%2C%20Watford%2C%20Hertfordshire%2C%20WD24%204QL)

Email address: xxx@jdwetherspoon.co.uk

Phone number: Not found

Contact page: [jdwetherspoon.com/contact/](https://jdwetherspoon.com/contact/)

Website: [jdwetherspoon.com](https://jdwetherspoon.com/?utm_source=truthsignal.com&utm_medium=referral)

Social media: Not found

## Do the sources agree?

Address: Wetherspoon House, Reeds Crescent, Watford, Hertfordshire, WD24 4QL Its website agrees Companies House agrees OpenStreetMap not found Web Data Commons not found

Company name: J D WETHERSPOON PLC Companies House agrees Its website differs

Sources give different names · Its website has J D Wetherspoon

## Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints

Site Reviews Rating

[SmartCustomer](https://www.smartcustomer.com/reviews/jdwetherspoon.com) · Read 12 November 2026 · 2 reviews · 2.0 out of 5 stars

[Reviews.io](https://www.reviews.io/company-reviews/store/www-jdwetherspoon-com) · Read 12 November 2026 · 145 reviews · 2.4 out of 5 stars

Total 147 2.4 out of 5 stars

Customer satisfaction Mostly dissatisfied · Medium confidence · From 147 reviews on 2 independent review sites

App experience Insufficient evidence · No app ratings found

## Summary

Is jdwetherspoon.com legit and trustworthy? Truth score 84 out of 100, high truth signals: 7 public checks clear, 1 to be cautious about, 1 not found, 2 for information. Legitimacy confidence: high. App experience: insufficient evidence. Customer satisfaction: mostly dissatisfied, medium confidence.

jdwetherspoon.com is run by J D Wetherspoon PLC, an active UK company registered at Companies House 43 years ago, and was founded in 1979. Its website address was registered 26 years ago, and is locked against transfer to someone else. The postcode on its website matches its registered office. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. Be cautious: its 145 reviews on Reviews.io average only 2.4 stars out of 5. Its 2 reviews on SmartCustomer average only 2.0 stars out of 5. We could not find social media profiles or a phone number.

### Positives

- An active UK company registered at Companies House, set up 43 years ago.
- Its website address was registered 26 years ago.
- The postcode on its website matches its registered office at Companies House.
- No malware or phishing warnings found for its website.

### Be cautious

- A substantial number of independent reviews (145 on [Reviews.io](https://www.reviews.io/company-reviews/store/www-jdwetherspoon-com) ), but it falls short with only 2.4 stars out of 5.
- A low number of independent reviews (2 on [SmartCustomer](https://www.smartcustomer.com/reviews/jdwetherspoon.com) ), but it falls short with only 2.0 stars out of 5.

### Not found

- Social presence information was not found from our checks.
- Phone number information was not found from our checks.

Our technical team has been informed.

Important context: Truth Signal weighs public evidence about this business. A high score means strong evidence that the business is established and legitimate, not a promise that it is safe to buy from or that every purchase will go well. A low score means the evidence is thin or raises concerns, not that the business is unsafe or a scam.

### What they offer

Find your local Wetherspoon

— J D Wetherspoon, in their own words

Where to find them

Places: 554 restaurants · busiest 12 of 354 towns below · 49 with no town given

- London 39
- Leeds 9
- Bristol 8
- Manchester 7

- Liverpool 7
- Newcastle upon Tyne 7
- Glasgow 6
- Edinburgh 6

- Birmingham 6
- Nottingham 6
- Cardiff 6
- Leicester 4

Sources [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) [Its homepage](https://www.jdwetherspoon.com/)

### How to check if jdwetherspoon.com is legit

To check if jdwetherspoon.com is legit yourself, look at the same public records we did: the company register, who owns the web address and since when, customer reviews (where buyers leave praise and complaints), visitor numbers, how long the site has existed, social profiles, malware lists, data breaches and email security. Each row below shows what that record says about jdwetherspoon.com; open a row to see the facts and the source to check them yourself. Step by step: [how to know if a shopping site is legit](https://truthsignal.com/guides/how-to-know-if-a-shopping-site-is-legit).

### Who they are

Company details An active UK company registered at Companies House, set up 43 years ago

- Its registered office at Companies House is Wetherspoon House, Reeds Crescent, Watford, Hertfordshire, WD24 4QL
- Its latest accounts at Companies House run to 26 July 2026
- It has filed at Companies House regularly for the last five years, with no gap longer than 15 months
- Registered with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) to handle personal data

Country

Where the company is based: UK

Why we believe that: it is registered at Companies House, which is a registration for UK businesses, the site's structured data states its country, its terms are governed by the laws of England, its postcode is a UK postcode

Which countries the company serves: UK

Why we believe that: £ prices on its homepage

Registration

Companies House registration: Registered as J D WETHERSPOON PLC

Data protection registration (ICO): Registered, number Z5583695

VAT number: Not found

Companies House register

Company found in official company register: Yes

Registered company name: J D WETHERSPOON PLC

Company status: active

Company age: 43 years

Registered address: Wetherspoon House, Reeds Crescent, Watford, Hertfordshire, WD24 4QL

Accounts overdue: No

Confirmation statement overdue: No

Insolvency history: No

Registered office in dispute: No

Filing history consistent: Yes

ICO data-protection fee payer: Yes

Registered to do: 56302 Public houses and bars

Previous names: J.D. WETHERSPOON ORGANISATION LIMITED (25 Mar 1983 to 6 Oct 1992)

Company type: Public limited company

Size and borrowing

Accounts filed: Group accounts Accounts for a parent company and the companies it owns.

Secured loans (charges): 0 No secured loans outstanding at Companies House.

From Wikipedia

Type (Wikipedia): public limited company

Industry: hospitality industry

Founded: 1979

Sources [Companies House](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01709784) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetherspoons) [ICO register entry](https://ico.org.uk/ESDWebPages/Entry/Z5583695)

Domain registration Its website address was registered 26 years ago

- Its website address is locked against being transferred to someone else

Domain age: 26 years

Domain transfer lock enabled: Yes

Sources [ICANN Lookup](https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup?name=jdwetherspoon.com)

Website details We read 4 of its pages: contact, about, terms and privacy

- Company contact email is available

HTTPS enabled: Yes

Contact phone number found: Not found

Contact page found: Yes

Sources agreeing on postcode: 2

Hosting company: WPEngine, Inc.

What its pages say

Ways to contact them: [xxx@jdwetherspoon.co.uk](mailto:xxx@jdwetherspoon.co.uk)

In their own words: “It has come to our attention that individuals posing as representatives of J D Wetherspoon are seeking supply of products on a fraudulent basis. Fraudulent communications are being sent from e-mail addresses that are very similar to a genuine J D Wetherspoon email address ( [email protected] ) but will have a spelling error (possibly one letter) in the body of the e-mail. Please be extra vigilant with any unsolicited e-mails purporting to be from J D Wetherspoon.”

Sources [Homepage](https://jdwetherspoon.com/) [Contact page](https://jdwetherspoon.com/contact/) [About page](https://jdwetherspoon.com/about-us/) [Suppliers](https://jdwetherspoon.com/about-us/suppliers) [Terms page](https://jdwetherspoon.com/terms-conditions/) [KB LEGAL0002ALL V6 1025 Supplier charter.pdf](https://jdwetherspoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/KB-LEGAL0002ALL-V6-1025-Supplier-charter.pdf) [Privacy page](https://jdwetherspoon.com/privacy-policy/) [Privacy policies](https://jdwetherspoon.com/about-us/privacy-policies/)

Search engines and AI Lets in every search engine and AI tool

Which search engines and AI tools its robots.txt file lets read the website. Search engines list it in results; AI training tools learn from it; AI answer tools read it to answer someone’s question.

Search engines

All allowed

Google Search: Allowed by default Googlebot

Bing: Allowed by default Bingbot

AI training

All allowed

OpenAI: Allowed by default GPTBot

Anthropic: Allowed by default ClaudeBot

Google AI: Allowed by default Google-Extended

Apple AI: Allowed by default Applebot-Extended

Common Crawl: Allowed by default CCBot

Meta: Allowed by default meta-externalagent

ByteDance (TikTok): Allowed by default Bytespider

AI answers

All allowed

ChatGPT search: Allowed by default OAI-SearchBot

ChatGPT: Allowed by default ChatGPT-User

Claude search: Allowed by default Claude-SearchBot

Claude: Allowed by default Claude-User

Perplexity: Allowed by default PerplexityBot

Sources [robots.txt](https://jdwetherspoon.com/robots.txt)

### Reputation and track record

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints 147 reviews across 2 platforms, rated 2.0 to 2.4 out of 5

Platform · Rating · Reviews

[SmartCustomer](https://www.smartcustomer.com/reviews/jdwetherspoon.com) · 2.0 out of 5 stars · 2

[Reviews.io](https://www.reviews.io/company-reviews/store/www-jdwetherspoon-com) · 2.4 out of 5 stars · 145

Total · 2.4 out of 5 stars · 147

Food hygiene 19 of its premises are on the Food Standards Agency register; 18 are rated 5. Matched on each one's postcode as well as its name.

Rated 5: 18

Pass (Scotland): 1

Visitor traffic Real people visited its website in 24 of the last 24 months

- Real people have visited its website since February 2021 or earlier

Monthly visitor data

Popularity among Chrome users: top 100,000 sites

First known user traffic: Feb 2021 or earlier

Months with real traffic, of the last 24: 24

Traffic pattern: sustained

Rank jump in the last 12 months: none

Rank drop in the last 12 months: none

Where its visitors are

Share of people looking up jdwetherspoon.com, by country, over the last 2 days.

- Over 50%
- 5 to 50%
- 1 to 5%
- 0.2 to 1%
- Under 0.2%
- None seen

- 1 United Kingdom 60.0%
- 2 United States 35.0%
- 3 Singapore 5.0%

Sources [Chrome UX Report](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux) [Cloudflare Radar](https://radar.cloudflare.com/domains/domain/jdwetherspoon.com)

Web history and authority The Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 26 years ago

Website archive history: 26 years

Sources [First archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20001018/jdwetherspoon.com)

Social presence We could not check how big its social media following is: the check ran out of time.

### What data this site collects about you

What its privacy policy says We found this business stores and uses your data

Collects where you are.: “Technical data includes Internet protocol addresses, location data (the apps require location data for certain features to work – for example to determine your nearest pub.”

May send your data to other countries.: “On occasion, this may involve transferring your data outside of the EEA.”

Says you can ask it to delete your data.: “In some circumstances, you can ask us to delete your data – see ‘Your legal rights’, below, for further information.”

Source [Its privacy policy](https://www.jdwetherspoon.com/about-us/privacy-policies/) [Its other privacy page](https://www.jdwetherspoon.com/privacy-policy/)

Tracking tools on its homepage Google Analytics

Named in its homepage's code when we read it. Others may load later, so this list may not be complete.

Google Analytics: Counts your visits and what you look at.

Uses CookieYes to ask which cookies you allow.

Source [Its homepage](https://jdwetherspoon.com/)

### Safety

Malware and phishing No malware or phishing warnings found for its website This check is not perfect: it can miss a harmful site, and it can wrongly warn about a safe one.

Malware or phishing threat status: None found

Sources [Google Web Risk](https://docs.cloud.google.com/web-risk/docs/advisory)

Data breach history No known data breach involving the company

Known data breaches found: 0

Sources [Have I Been Pwned](https://haveibeenpwned.com/)

Domain and email security Its email is protected: mail forged in its name goes to spam

Email

MX records: Yes

SPF record: Yes

DMARC record: Yes

DMARC policy: quarantine

Certificate

Security certificate browsers warn about: No

Certificate issuer: Google Trust Services

Certificate type: DV

Certificate expires: 15 Dec 2026

Hosting

Nameservers: dns1.cscdns.net
dns2.cscdns.net

Address: 141.193.213.20
141.193.213.21

Sources [Its DNS records](https://dns.google/query?name=jdwetherspoon.com&rr_type=TXT)

### Proof of ownership

What the business has done to prove it runs this website. Each proof adds points to its truth score, up to 5. A proof it has not added is never counted against it.

DNS record Not added yet +3 possible

What we check: A record the business adds in its domain's settings. Only someone who runs the website can add one.

When we check: On every check. The points stay only while the record is there.

Points: 0 of 3 added

Source jdwetherspoon.com's DNS records

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Email at its own domain Not added yet +1 possible

What we check: That someone at the business has confirmed an email address at its own website's domain.

When we check: When the address is confirmed. It counts from then on.

Points: 0 of 1 added

Source Truth Signal's own records

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Lets our checker read it Not added yet +1 possible

What we check: That its robots.txt file names our checker, TruthSignal, and lets it read the whole website.

When we check: On every check. The point stays only while the file allows it.

Points: 0 of 1 added

Source jdwetherspoon.com/robots.txt

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Points added to its truth score 0 of 5

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## Past reports

The report as it read each month, newest first:

- 2026-11: truth score 84, High: https://truthsignal.com/business/jdwetherspoon.com/report/2026-11.md

## How the customers' Total rating is worked out

Bayesian average: 7 reviews at 3.5 stars added, so a few reviews move it less. The 7 added reviews at 3.5 stars are the weighting Trustpilot publishes for its TrustScore. With this business's figures:

(7 × 3.5 + 2 × 2 (SmartCustomer) + 2.4 × 145 (Reviews.io)) ÷ (7 + 147) = 2.4, to one decimal place

## Cite

Truth Signal, J D Wetherspoon: truth score 84 out of 100, legitimacy confidence High, assessed 2026-11-12, https://truthsignal.com/business/jdwetherspoon.com. Licence Truth Signal terms: free to read and quote with a link back; bulk copying, data sets, resale, white-label and model training need the paid API plan (https://truthsignal.com/terms). The same report as JSON: https://truthsignal.com/business/jdwetherspoon.com.json
