The Crown & Mitre

Gone

Closed in the month before 16 May 1917

There now

Not recorded

Address

Crosby-on-Eden

Where exactly

Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY4471459541, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building's use in 2018: residential (Mitre House).

Just along the road from the Stag at Crosby-on-Eden, the white building beside it in Mike Tuer's photograph, and trading from around 1822. It closed in the spring of 1917: the Cumberland News of 19 May 1917 lists it among three licensed houses closed in the Board's Carlisle district in the previous month, with the White Quey at Stoneraise and the White Swan at Longtown. It had been on the Cumberland News's list of Ward houses in July 1916, a year before it closed. Not the Crown & Mitre in Carlisle, which the scheme never owned.

Sources

• Mike Tuer, "Pubs of Carlisle" Day 180, 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, 19 May 1917 (the running head is misprinted 12 May; page number not legible): Carlisle Advisory Committee report of Wednesday 16 May, 'State Purchase: extension to West Cumberland' (via newspapers.com)
• 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 Crosby-on-Eden

• The Laughing Stock

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

Still serving, near where it stood

• The Stag Inn

  Crosby-on-Eden
  20 maway

• Carlisle Golf Club

  Wetheral
  3.3 kmaway

• The Queens at Warwick on Eden

  Warwick-on-Eden
  3.6 kmaway

• The Otter Inn

  Little Corby
  3.7 kmaway