I was in one the other day (the Tower Bank Arms in Sawrey , Lake District) which was very agreeable. I didn't realise the NT owned any pubs so it got me thinking "how many pubs does the National Trust own and what are they like?"
Google revealed umpteen but I haven't actually been able to find a list. Anyone help?
I have a feeling the Strickland Arms, near Sizergh Castle, near Kendal is now in the hands of the NT. Sizergh Castle is the ancestral pile of the Hornyold Strickland family
- I kid you not. I understand that they have now dropped the Hornyold part of their name.
On Sun, 5 Aug 2007 11:05:28 +0100, John Frum wrote (in message ):
Here's the list the NT press office sent (unfortunately the email was not formatted as they thought):
"A-Z list below. Those in bold are managed by the National Trust, the rest are tenanted.
Bankes Arms, Studland, Dorset Bankes Arms Hotel, Corfe, Dorset Birling Gap, East Dean, East Sussex Buckinghamshire Arms, Blickling, Norfolk Castle Inn, Chiddingstone, Kent Castle Inn, Bodiam, East Sussex Cedar House Hotel, Cobham, Surrey (hotel) Cross Keys, Cautley, Cumbria Crown Liquor Saloon, Belfast Cwmdu Inn, Cwmdu, Dyfed Dolaucothi Arms, Pumpsaint, Dyfed Dolmelynllyn Hall Hotel, Ganllwyd, Gwynedd (now a hotel, not a pub) Fleece Inn, Bretforton, nr Evesham, Hereford & Worcs George Inn, Lacock, Wilts George and Dragon, West Wycombe, Bucks George Inn, Southwark, London Hardwick Inn, Chesterfield, Derbyshire Kings Mills, Wrexham, Clwyd King's Head, Aylesbury, Bucks M. McBride's, Cushenden, Co Antrim Manor House Hotel, Studland, Dorset (now a hotel, rather than a pub) Marisco Tavern, Lundy, Devon Morden Hall, London [restaurant/bar] Nelson's Head, Horsey, Norfolk Old Dungeon Ghyll, Great Langdale, Cumbria Plough Inn, West Wycombe, Bucks Radnor Arms, Coleshill, Berkshire Red Lion, Broadclyst, Devon Red Lion, Lacock, Wilts Red Lion, Bradenham, Bucks Red Lion, Kilmington, Stourton, Wilts Ship Inn, Low Newton-by-the-Sea, Northumbria Sign of the Angel, Lacock, Wilts Spread Eagle, Stourton, Wilts Strickland Arms, Sizergh, Cumbria Sun Inn, Saffron Walden, Essex (now a shop) Swan, West Wycombe, Bucks The Logan Rock, Treen, Cornwall Tower Bank Arms, Nr Sawrey, Cumbria Ty Coch, Porthdinllaen, Llyn Peninsula Tyn-y-Groes, Ganllwyd, Gwynedd Vine Inn, Pamphill, Dorset Wizard of the Edge Inn, Alderley Edge, Cheshire"
Do you know which Xian cult the Chiltern owners belong to? It seems strange to find religious fundies brewing beer, unless it's an old-established sect with roots in the days when beer was a temperance drink.
I have and you would not know it had burnt down. However it took me a short while to realise that the thatched roof (the cause of the fire in combination with a chimney I believe) has been replaced with tiles. If you did not know you would never guess!
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