The Kings Arms

Gone

Closed as a pub 1924

There now

The Country Kitchen

Address

The Square, Dalston

Where exactly

Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY3693250109, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building's use in 2018: commercial.

Next door to the Blue Bell on the square at Dalston, in the building now occupied by the Country Kitchen. The State Management Scheme acquired it in 1918, and it closed as a pub in 1924 by one record, 1922 by Historic England's gazetteer, leaving the Blue Bell as the only inn on the square, which it still is. The building is late eighteenth century and listed grade II. In July 1916 the Cumberland News counted four licensed houses at Dalston: this, the White Swan, the Indian King and the Blue Bell. In February 1916, months before the scheme arrived, its licence passed from Robert Scott to Mrs Louise Wilkinson.

Sources

• Mike Tuer, "Pubs of Carlisle" Day 152, 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)
• Cumberland Evening News, 5 February 1916, p. 2: 'Licence transfer' (via British Newspaper Archive)

Also lost in Dalston

• The Indian King
• The Crown and Mitre
• The White Swan

3 other lost pubs stood within 250 m of here. See them on the map

Still serving, near where it stood

• The Blue Bell

  Dalston
  20 maway

• Bridge End Inn

  Dalston
  1.4 kmaway

• Dalston Hall Golf Club

  Dalston
  1.8 kmaway

• The Spinners Arms

  Cummersdale
  3.7 kmaway