Lost pub · Scotch Street

The Old Turks Head

about 1800 to about 1829

Opened: about 1800
Gone: Demolished 1829
There now: Unknown
Where exactly: Placed at the Scotch Street end of Old Turk's Head Lane, using Carlisle's 1794 town plan fitted to the modern map. The pin is approximate.

On Scotch Street from about 1800, and demolished in 1829 by one record; another has an Old Turks Head on Scotch Street until 1834. A separate pub from the City Vaults on Fisher Street, which traded as the Turks Head from before 1783. The plan of the city printed in Hutchinson's History of Cumberland in 1794 already names an Old Turk's Head Lane off the east side of Scotch Street, facing the Market Place, which points to a Turk's Head on the street, and one already called old, before the first directory date.

Photograph

Engraved street plan of the east side of Scotch Street by the Market Place, with long narrow plots running east and a red ellipse round the engraved name Old Turk's Head Lane — Old Turk's Head Lane, off the east side of Scotch Street facing the Market Place, on the plan of the city in Hutchinson's History of Cumberland, 1794 W. Hutchinson, History of Cumberland, vol. II (1794), Public domain

Sources

Carlisle Encyclopaedia
CARLISLE_PUBS_Ver_3.xls (Mike Tuer's pub database)
W. Hutchinson, The History of the County of Cumberland, vol. II (Carlisle: F. Jollie, 1794), Plan of the City of Carlisle and Places Adjacent, facing p. 585: the 1794 town plan

Location from archive.org. The pin is approximate.

Open question

A date we can't pin down

Carlisle's 1794 town plan already names an Old Turk's Head Lane off Scotch Street. Was the Old Turks Head trading well before 1800, and was there an older Turk's Head on the street before it?

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