The Ship Inn

Gone

Closed December 1916

There now

A house

Address

Rockcliffe

Where exactly

Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY3574961741, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building's use in 2018: residential.

Rockcliffe's Ship, on the Eden near where it meets the Solway, closed by the Board in December 1916. The Board later opened the Mounsey Arms in a former reading room nearby. In July 1916 the paper listed it alongside the Crown and Thistle, the house Rockcliffe kept.

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
• 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)

Also lost in Rockcliffe

• The Mounsey Arms
• The Blooming Heather
• The Three Crowns

Still serving, near where it stood

• The Crown & Thistle

  Rockcliffe
  290 maway

• Metal Bridge Inn

  Metal Bridge
  3.1 kmaway

• The Drovers Rest

  Monkhill
  3.4 kmaway

• Greyhound Inn

  Burgh by Sands
  4.3 kmaway