Lost pub · Castle Carrock
The Weary Sportsman
- Gone
- Closed about 2011; demolished 2014
- There now
- Not established
- Address
- Geltsdale Road, Castle Carrock
- Where exactly
- On Geltsdale Road, across from the Duke of Cumberland. The exact spot isn't known, so the pin sits at the Duke and the position is approximate.
Castle Carrock had two pubs on opposite sides of Geltsdale Road, and this was the one that did not survive. Mike Tuer's database has it trading before 1829, a Brampton Old Brewery house that later passed to Glasson's Penrith Breweries of Penrith, and gives January 2011 as its last entry. It was pulled down in 2014. That makes it a brewery house of the ordinary kind in a village where the Duke of Cumberland was a scheme pub, and the two stood either side of the road for most of the twentieth century.
The Carlisle Journal of 21 July 1961 carried its advertisement, the Weary Sportsman, Castle Carrock, with Mr E. Duers as licensee, bed and breakfast, two car parks and the telephone number Hayton 230. It did not call itself a free house, as the Duke did on the same page. In March 1903 the police objected to its licence because the tenant also held the cottage next door, which they said made the inn harder to supervise; he gave the cottage up and the licence was renewed. Castle Carrock then had three fully licensed houses and two beerhouses.
Sources
- Co-Curate, Newcastle University: Geltsdale Road, Castle Carrock, with the Weary Sportsman demolished in 2014
- Mike Tuer's Cumberland pubs database (Solway CAMRA): the Weary Sportsman, Castle Carrock
- Carlisle Journal, 21 July 1961, p. 9: 'There is a tavern out of town', a special feature with a map and advertisements from thirteen country inns (via newspapers.com)
- Carlisle Journal, 3 March 1903, p. 6: adjourned licensing sessions for Carlisle, the Cumberland Ward and Brampton (via British Newspaper Archive)
Still serving, near where it stood
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0 maway
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2.1 kmaway
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3.5 kmaway
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3.5 kmaway