The Fox and Hounds

Gone

Licence extinguished with compensation, 1909

There now

Not recorded

Address

Moorend, Thursby

Where exactly

At Moorend, on the Carlisle to Wigton road just outside Thursby. The exact spot isn't known, so the pin marks the area, not the building. The position is approximate.

A wayside inn at Moorend, on the main road from Carlisle to Wigton just outside Thursby, and a Carlisle Old Brewery house by its last years. Isaac Fawkes passed the licence to John Cartner in November 1888.

In 1909 the Wigton justices referred it to the Cumberland Compensation Authority as redundant; at the referral in February they heard that 'one customer was there every time'. At the hearing in June the superintendent said there were two inns at Thursby and this one was on the main road. P.C. Farrer had called several times, mostly between nine and ten at night, and found one, two or four customers in.

Mrs Elizabeth Gunn had been the tenant for thirteen months, having formerly held a licence near Coldstream. Her customers, she said, were mainly farmers and travellers, all respectable, and she catered for lodgers, one of whom had come with her from Carlisle. A farmer from Howend, three-quarters of a mile off, found it convenient, cyclists used it a great deal in summer, and a market gardener from Broadwath had lodged there while working on a contract nearby.

Robert Dalton of the City Hall called it an ideal wayside inn, with four bedrooms and good rooms, at the junction of two important thoroughfares: considering the population he could not imagine a better site. The Ship, he said, was more of a hotel, and the other inn at Thursby was in a kind of cul-de-sac. In June 1909 the authority sent it for compensation.

Sources

• Wigton Advertiser, 17 November 1888, p. 4: licence transfer, Fox and Hounds, Moorend (via British Newspaper Archive)
• Carlisle Journal, 5 February 1909, p. 5: licences referred for compensation (via British Newspaper Archive)
• Carlisle Journal, 4 June 1909, p. 6: 'Cumberland Compensation Authority: the "principal" meeting' (via British Newspaper Archive)

Also lost in Thursby

• The Horse and Farrier

Still serving, near where it stood

• The Ship Inn

  Thursby
  1.1 kmaway

• The Oak at Curthwaite

  Curthwaite
  2.4 kmaway

• The Wellington Inn

  Great Orton
  2.6 kmaway

• The Blue Bell

  Dalston
  3.9 kmaway