TWO-and-a-half years, 631 pubs, 20,500 miles covered and more than £1,800 raised for charity means one Oxfordshire couple’s quest to visit every single Red Lion pub in the UK is almost complete.

Kayleigh Snell, 30, and Paul Tyack, 31, both from Woodstock, have just one more Red Lion to visit next weekend before time is called on their mammoth pub crawl fundraiser.

After having a drink in all 632 Red Lions in the UK the couple will be then be donating the money to Pulmonary Hypertension UK, a lung disease that Paul's seven-year-old niece Emily suffers from.

Ahead of visiting the final pub in Boldre, Hampshire on Friday, Miss Snell said: “It’s been amazing.

“We’ve been to so many places and met so many interesting people and everyone’s been really generous.”

Miss Snell and Mr Tyack, who are due to be married in May, began their pub crawl to end all pub crawls in September 2015 after an impromptu visit to the Red Lion (the most commonly named pub in the country) in Northmoor and decided to take on the challenge.

Travelling across the country, even getting a flight up to Inverness to tackle Scotland and the north of England, the couple made sure to have at least one drink in each of the land's Red Lions.

Miss Snell added: “After we’d been to about 200 hundred pubs someone said to use why don’t we do it for charity, so we decided to raise money and we just, what a great idea,

"We wanted to raise money for a charity that maybe isn’t that well known and because Paul’s niece has Pulmonary Hypertension we thought why not do it for that.

“Paul’s family has been very supportive and Emily totally gets what we’re doing, so they are really pleased.”

And despite the all of the pubs being identical in name, Miss Snell said some of them could not have been more different in terms of décor and atmosphere, particularly one Red Lion that had been set up in a working men’s club after the original village pub was closed down, and the Red Lion which was moved from its former location in Stoke-on-Trent and rebuilt brick by brick at the Tramway village museum in Crich.

Miss Snell, who lives with her fiancé in New Road, said: “There were five or six that were so welcoming.

“The Red Lion in Heolgerrig in Merthyr Tydfil – they were bringing us food, and free drinks, when we told them what we were doing, it was fantastic.

“And St Osyth in Essex, the locals and the owners were so warm and welcoming.”

Locally, the Red Lion in Old Marston (“fantastic food but also a pub vibe to it,” is how Miss Snell described it) and the Chalgrove Red Lion (“one of the prettiest from the outside” and “warm and cosy inside”) left a lasting impression.

And, having now spent time propping up the bar at more than 600 pubs, Miss Snell feels she knows the vital ingredient that makes a special drinking den.

“It’s the people in them," she said.

"The locals and the staff, that’s what makes any pub a great pub.”

After having surpassed their initial fundraising target of £1,000, the couple are now hoping to raise as much money for Pulmonary Hypertension UK ahead of the end of their challenge next week.

To donate visit www.justgiving.com/fundraising/kayleighpaulredlionquest.