The Blooming Heather

Gone

Licence given up for £150 compensation, July 1906

There now

Not established

Address

Rockcliffe

Where exactly

In Rockcliffe, at a junction of three roads. The exact spot isn't known, so the pin marks the village, not the building. The position is approximate.

A beerhouse at Rockcliffe, at the junction of three roads, built about 1846 by the father-in-law of its last owner, Sarah Sinclair, and a beerhouse all its life. By 1906 it was the only free house in the village, and Mrs Sinclair, a widow, had taken it over herself only the year before. It sold about 30 barrels of beer a year, with 70 dozen bottles and 140 dozen of mineral waters. The county Compensation Authority, set up under the Licensing Act of 1904 to buy out licences the justices judged surplus, fixed £150 for it in July 1906, and that was accepted. The village's other beerhouse, the Three Crowns, went at the same hearing.

Source

• Carlisle Journal, 27 July 1906, p. 6: 'Compensation for licences: meeting of the Cumberland Authority' (via British Newspaper Archive)

Also lost in Rockcliffe

• The Mounsey Arms
• The Ship Inn
• The Three Crowns

1 other lost pub stood within 250 m of here. See them on the map

Still serving, near where it stood

• The Crown & Thistle

  Rockcliffe
  280 maway

• The Drovers Rest

  Monkhill
  3.2 kmaway

• Metal Bridge Inn

  Metal Bridge
  3.5 kmaway

• Coach & Horses

  Kingstown
  4.1 kmaway