For immediate release

3 February 2017

JD Wetherspoon plc

("the Company")

Announcement of transaction in ordinary shares by a Director/PDMR

The Company was informed that on 2 February 2017 Helena Geoghegan, wife of Martin Geoghegan, a Director of JD Wetherspoon plc, sold 4,927 of the company's ordinary shares at a price of 959.71 pence per share.

The shareholding of Mr and Mrs Geoghegan is now 21,716 ordinary shares in the Company.

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