Lost pub · Harraby

The Golden Fleece Inn

Gone: Closing date not recorded
There now: Not established
Where exactly: In Harraby. The exact spot isn't known, so the pin marks the district, not the building. The position is approximate.

One of Carlisle's five Golden Fleeces, and also known simply as the Harraby Inn. The Carlisle Journal advertised it to let on 16 September 1809, with a tea garden attached, William Salt named as innkeeper. A Golden Fleece is recorded on Harraby Hill from 1808 to 1810, the first name of the house that became the Bald Faced Stag and then the Apple Tree, and this may be the same inn.

Another Golden Fleece stood further out on the same road, at Quarry Gate beyond Carleton, trading by 1829 and very probably by 1816, and the 1809 house could be that one instead. The others stood on Corporation Road, at Carleton, on St Nicholas Street and at Willowholme.

Sources 2

Carlisle Encyclopaedia, "G" page
CARLISLE_PUBS_Ver_3.xls (Mike Tuer's pub database)

Open question

An unsolved mystery

Was the Golden Fleece, or Harraby Inn, of 1809 the Golden Fleece on Harraby Hill (1808-10) that became the Bald Faced Stag and the Apple Tree, or the Golden Fleece further out on the same road at Quarry Gate, Carleton, which traded until 1917?

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