Village Inns

Village Inns

Going back to 1615 we find that three Ale Houses were licensed by the Justices.

1. The Wayside Inn, at Abbots House. The licence is thought to have been given up soon after the opening of the Turnpike road in 1759 and transferred to the "Hare and Hounds Inn" on the site of what is now Waites House. In October 1878 the licence of the "Hare and Hounds" was transferred to the newly built "Station Hotel" which later became the "Goathland Hotel".

2. The Chapel Inn - later "Cross Pipes" which surrendered its licence in 1892 when the licence was transferred to the nearby, newly built "Mallyan Spout Hotel".

3. At Beckhole on the site of the present house called "The Lord Nelson". It is thought to have been originally known as the "Bulls Head" before being renamed "The Lord Nelson" in honour of the victor of the Nile. The date-stone of the pub (1678) was built into the present house when the old one-storied thatched Inn, depicted in Nicholson's print of 1821, was rebuilt in 1850. No accurate date is known for the opening of the "Birch Hall Inn" but it is thought to have opened in the early 1860's and had a licence to sell ale, porter and perry until 1966 when it was granted a full licence.

(Extracted from: A History of The Vale of Goathland by F W ('Bill') Peirson. 1985

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The "Inn on the Moor" was built in the 1890's opposite the Goathland Hotel as the "Goathland Hydro", a 'spa' hotel powered by hydro-electricity from Goathland Mill near the station.

Village Inns photos etc

For The Lord Nelson and Birch Hall Inn see Beck Hole

From Katherine Smailes

From John Smailes (slides presented in Village Hall)

For The Lord Nelson and Birch Hall Inn see Beck Hole