The Welcome Inn

Gone

Closed by the Board, 1917

There now

Scotby village hall stands on the site

Address

Scotby village green

Where exactly

Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY4413755135, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building has since been demolished.

On the village green at Scotby, where the village hall is now. It traded from 1864 until 1917, when the Liquor Control Board closed it. The Royal Oak is the pub Scotby kept. Historic England's gazetteer has it closed earlier, in November 1916, and the building demolished by 1972. The Cumberland News listed it in July 1916 as the Welcome, Scotby, beside the Royal Oak.

Sources

• Mike Tuer, "Pubs of Carlisle" Day 160, 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)

Still serving, near where it stood

• Royal Oak

  Scotby
  80 maway

• Carlisle Golf Club

  Wetheral
  1.2 kmaway

• Arroyo Arms

  Harraby
  1.3 kmaway

• The Auctioneer

  Rosehill
  1.6 kmaway