Can anyone help me locate the pub pictured in the year 2000 below. It was then in the GPG. I think it is in mid devon somewhere. However most pubs eem to have a web image somewhere and I have drawn a complete blank with this. One possibility is that it is the Duke of York at Iddesleigh. Any offers?
In article , rob thirlby writes
It looks like The Duke of York in Iddesleigh, a pub with excellent beer behind the bar, and excellent food. I go there often. In fact having now done a Web search, it is The Duke of York, see:
Many thanks. Yes it certainly did excellent food and beer when we made our only visit in 2000 hence the desire to revisit in April.
Rob
Dear Mr. Thirlby --
I have just now, quite by accident, stumbled across your question about the identity of a central Devon pub that you thought might be the Duke of York in Iddelsleigh. I note that your questions is about 6 months old and is probably ancient history by now, but if it's still an open issue, let me say that it looks EXACTLY like the Duke of York, enough so that I would conclude it to be the same. I have been to the Duke of York just once for lunch while being driven by a friend (a local B&B cottage keeper in the Chulmleigh/Winkleigh area) from the Eggesford rail station to Bideford for my departure to Lundy Island in October 2002. I recall waiting for my wife to come out of a gift/craft shop that would have been just on the other side of the green car in you picture, and while waiting I studied the pub's exterior. I remember quite clearly the "X" timbers below the thatching, the "beer garden" sign, the narrow vertical slit windows on either side of the fireplace and the church at the far end of the enclosed parking area. Though having been there just once, it is my second favorite pub in all of England behind only the Marisco Tavern (not really a pub but close enough for an American) on Lundy.
As an annual pilgrim to Lundy, frequent visitor to North Devon and general devotee of West Country pub culture, I was intrigued by a review I read very recently in my local newspaper about a restaurant called the Duke of Devon Pub in a community close to my home here in the US. Probably a shameless cliche of fake Englishness, but intriguing nonetheless. While Googling "Duke of Devon Pub" to find more about the establishment (there's nothing to be found, so I guess I'll have to check it out first hand), I evidently entered enough key words to be taken to this site. So that's how I found you. Hope I was helpful.
Best regards, Michael Kelly Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA snipped-for-privacy@ra.rockwell.com
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