The Royal Oak

Gone

Closing date not recorded

There now

A house, Royal Oak House

Address

Gaitsgill

Where exactly

Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY3881246714, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building's use in 2018: residential (Royal Oak House).

A village inn at Gaitsgill, south of Dalston, probably of the early eighteenth century. The scheme took it in 1917 and ran it to the end, and it went to Greenall Whitley with Group 2 of the sale on 4 April 1973. It is a house now, Royal Oak House. In July 1916 it was trading as the Royal Oak, Gaitsgill.

Sold to Greenall Whitley as part of Group 2, handed over on 4 April 1973. Who bought the rest

Sources

• 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
• Mike Tuer, State Management Scheme 40 Years On: the 1973 handover groups, dates and prices paid (Solway CAMRA)
• 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)

Still serving, near where it stood

• Crown Inn

  Ivegill
  2.1 kmaway

• Bridge End Inn

  Dalston
  2.7 kmaway

• The Blue Bell

  Dalston
  3.9 kmaway

• Dalston Hall Golf Club

  Dalston
  5.1 kmaway