The White Swan

Gone

Closed by the Board, 1918

There now

Commercial premises

Address

The Square, Dalston

Where exactly

Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY3687150072, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building's use in 2018: commercial.

A late eighteenth-century house on the Square at Dalston, closed by the Board in 1918. Dalston lost three of its pubs to the scheme: this, the Indian King next door, closed the same year, and the Kings Arms, closed in 1922. The Board put the former White Swan up for auction on 3 May 1919 as part of lot 6, a block at Dalston with a shop, sitting room, cellar, kitchen, stable and four bedrooms, let to a Mrs Bell, along with the Dalston Conservative Club's premises and two cottages. It was still trading in July 1916, one of the four Dalston houses the paper listed.

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, 19 April 1919, p. 10: Walter P. Gibbings's notice of the Central Control Board's sale of 3 May 1919 (via newspapers.com)
• 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 Dalston

• The Indian King
• The Kings Arms
• The Crown and Mitre

3 other lost pubs stood within 250 m of here. See them on the map

Still serving, near where it stood

• The Blue Bell

  Dalston
  50 maway

• Bridge End Inn

  Dalston
  1.4 kmaway

• Dalston Hall Golf Club

  Dalston
  1.9 kmaway

• The Spinners Arms

  Cummersdale
  3.8 kmaway