Lost pub · Harraby Hill

The Apple Tree

Gone about 1849

Gone: Gone from the directories after 1849
There now: Unknown
Where exactly: On Harraby Hill, on the London road; the pin marks the hill, not the building. The position is approximate.

On Harraby Hill, and a house with four names: the Golden Fleece from 1808, the Bald Faced Stag by 1811, the Apple Tree from about 1813, and the Lancer from 1829 until it drops out of the directories in 1849. Richard Sewell, 'innkeeper and tea-garden, Harraby-hill' in Jollie's directory of 1811, had it as the Stag. The Horticultural Society's gooseberry judges met at the Bald Faced Stag in July 1811, and the house was still trading as the Apple Tree in 1814; an 1829 advertisement apparently calls it by that name too.

The Lancer on Gallows Hill, which became Hill Top Cottage, then Harraby Lodge and then Thorncliffe, stood in the same part of Harraby under the same name at the same time, and may be the same house. So, perhaps, is the Golden Fleece, or Harraby Inn, advertised with a tea garden in 1809. Not to be confused with the Apple Tree on Lowther Street, a Redfern-designed pub still trading.

Sources 4

Carlisle Encyclopaedia, "A" page
CARLISLE_PUBS_Ver_3.xls (Mike Tuer's pub database)
Denis Perriam, Harraby, p20
Jollie's Cumberland Guide & Directory (Carlisle: F. Jollie & Sons, 1811), p. xix: Sewell Richard, innkeeper and tea-garden, Harraby-hill (Google Books scan of the Bodleian copy)

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