Background Exelby is a small rural Dales community of about 80 households about 3 miles from the market town of Bedale in North Yorkshire. In the past the Green Dragon traded successfully as a traditional village community free house but when the owners retired the…
The Black Pig is a traditional oak beamed pub on the edge of the village of Staple (population 700) which is a dormitory for Canterbury, Deal and the North Kent Coast. The current licensee, Billy Morgan, took on the pub, which was then closed, in…
Background: The Duke of York is situated alongside the Ashbourne to Buxton road, in the rural hamlet of Pomeroy near to the village of Flagg. The pub is in a relatively isolated location. In the pub grounds is a large, busy caravan/mobile home and camping…
BACKGROUND: Cotehill is a small village perched on the top of a hill and just off the main A6 route. It is 3 miles south east from junction 42 off the M6 motorway, 8 miles south east of Carlisle city centre and 12 miles north…
BACKGROUND The Half Moon is situated in Rushall, Norfolk - a small rural village 8 miles from Diss, and had been closed for over 12 months when Sarah Campbell-Jones and husband Ray Paul took over ownership in September 2017. This 17thcentury pub has extra meaning…
Background: The Sitwell Arms is a long established pub in the ex-mining village of Morton in Derbyshire with a population of circa 1200. There was a distinct lack of facilities in Morton so Paul and Russ approached the Parish Council and villagers to gauge support…
BACKGROUND The Oyster Inn is situated in the small village of Butley, 7 miles from Woodbridge, Suffolk, and was the focal point for this rural community, having been licensed since 1617, until it sadly closed in 2012. The pub remained closed for almost 5 years…
Dinton is a village, civil parish and former manor in Wiltshire, England, in the Nadder valley about 8 miles (13 km) west of Salisbury. The civil parish encompasses the small village of Baverstock, about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Dinton village and the population was 696 in the 2011 census. The railway remains open as…
