Lost pub · Kingstown
Cross Keys Beer House
- Built
- Trading by 1848
- Gone
- Closing date not recorded
- There now
- Not established
- Address
- At the fork of the Glasgow and Edinburgh roads, Kingstown
- Where exactly
- At the fork where the Glasgow road left the Edinburgh road, at the north end of Kingstown, marked by a guide post and the Carlisle two-mile stone on the six-inch map of about 1865. The pin is estimated from that map; the building itself isn't marked, so the position is approximate.
A beerhouse at the north end of Kingstown, 'about 2 miles from Carlisle, at the Junction of the Glasgow and Edinburgh Turnpike Roads'. That is where the Ordnance Survey's six-inch map of about 1865 marks a guide post beside the Carlisle two-mile stone, at the fork where the old Glasgow road leaves the Edinburgh road. Its owner, Jane Allen, also recorded as Jane Allan, lived in the cottage next door, with a good garden behind both. She advertised it to let in the Carlisle Journal of 18 February 1848 as 'a well-accustomed BEER HOUSE', and in September 1854 put the beershop and her cottage up for auction together, with John Birkett as tenant; they were offered again in November at the Crown and Anchor on English Street.
She advertised it to let again on 4 January 1856 and 6 February 1857, and the Carlisle Journal of 8 October 1858 records the sale of a house at Kingstown formerly the beerhouse called the Cross Keys. Even so, the Carlisle Patriot advertised it to let as a beerhouse on 21 September 1861, and Thomas Muir, 56 and born in Scotland, is the innkeeper of the 1891 census, so either the house came back to the trade or the name was used again. Birkett is the same surname as Isabella Birkett, who kept the village's Kings Arms until 1886, though nothing yet connects them. Not the Cross Keys on English Street.
Sources 5
- Carlisle Encyclopaedia
- Carlisle Journal, 18 February 1848, p. 1: 'To be let', the Cross Keys beer house, Kingstown (via British Newspaper Archive)
- Carlisle Journal, 8 September 1854, p. 1: 'Beershop, cottage, and garden, at Kingstown, for sale' (via British Newspaper Archive)
- Carlisle Journal, 3 November 1854, p. 1: 'Beershop, cottage & garden, at Kingstown, for sale' (via British Newspaper Archive)
- Ordnance Survey six-inch map, Cumberland, first edition (surveyed about 1865), via the National Library of Scotland
Also lost in Kingstown
1 other lost pub stood within 250 m of here. See them on the map
Still serving, near where it stood
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320 maway
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