The Board Inn

Gone

Closed July 1916

There now

A modern bungalow

Address

Blackford

Where exactly

Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY3969161951, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building has since been demolished.

On the Longtown road at Blackford, closed in July 1916, among the very first the Board shut. It stood long enough to appear on the Ordnance Survey map published in 1951; a bungalow is on the site now. It was still licensed on 8 July 1916, when the Cumberland News listed it as the Board, Blackford, among the twenty-four houses in the Longtown division, so the closure came later that month. The Cumberland News of 7 October 1916 reported its closure as a licensed house among the Board's latest decisions.

Sources

• Historic England, Countering the 'deadliest of foes': public houses of the Central Control Board and the State Management Scheme, 1916-73 (Clare Howard, Research Report 89-2018): Appendix C, gazetteer of scheme premises
• The Cumberland News, 8 July 1916: 'First State tavern: to be opened by Lord Lonsdale', with the list of licensed houses in the Cumberland Ward and Longtown divisions (via newspapers.com)
• The Cumberland News, 7 October 1916, p. 5: 'The Carlisle Experiment: Reconstruction of Inns' (via newspapers.com)

Still serving, near where it stood

• Coach & Horses

  Kingstown
  2.8 kmaway

• Gosling Bridge Inn

  Kingstown
  3.6 kmaway

• The Crown & Thistle

  Rockcliffe
  3.7 kmaway

• The Near Boot

  Kingstown
  4.2 kmaway