The Wheatsheaf

Gone

Closing date not recorded

There now

A house

Address

Rosley

Where exactly

Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY3199745280, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building's use in 2018: residential.

At Rosley, the village south of Wigton that held one of the biggest horse and cattle fairs in the north. The scheme took and converted the Wheatsheaf, probably in 1917, the date on its file. Mrs Younghusband kept it in 1895, when the Wigton bench let her stay open late for her annual hunt supper and ball on New Year's Day. In February 1909 its licence was fully transferred from John Jefferson to James Ullock of Brocklewath, Heads Nook.

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
• Carlisle Journal, 5 February 1909, p. 5: 'Licensing Sessions: Wigton' (via British Newspaper Archive)
• Carlisle Patriot, 27 December 1895, p. 3: 'Extensions' (via British Newspaper Archive)

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