The Cliff Inn

Gone

Closed as a pub 1999

There now

A house

Address

Middle Cliff, Kirklinton

Where exactly

Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY4153765938, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building's use in 2018: residential.

Near Kirklinton, and for most of its life one of the district's several Graham Arms, from the early nineteenth century until the 1970s, when it became the Cliff Inn. It was a scheme house, taken in October 1916 when the Scottish Control Office still held the border pubs, given new service arrangements, new public rooms and new lavatories in 1961-2, let to a tenant in the late 1960s and sold in 1972-3.

It closed as a pub in 1999. The other Graham Arms were at Longtown, still trading, Hayton, Westlinton, Gretna Station and Brampton. In July 1916 the Cumberland News listed it, in the Longtown division, as the Graham Arms, Cliff Bridge.

Sold in 1973 as a tenanted house for £5,560. Who bought the rest

Sources

• Mike Tuer, "Pubs of Carlisle" Day 186, Old Photos of Carlisle and Surrounding Area (Facebook)
• 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)

Also lost in Kirklinton

• The Robin Hood

Still serving, near where it stood

• Longtown Social Club

  Longtown
  4.5 kmaway

• Graham Arms Inn

  Longtown
  4.5 kmaway

• The Tavern

  Longtown
  4.6 kmaway

• Metal Bridge Inn

  Metal Bridge
  6.1 kmaway