Kingstown, Carlisle
Gosling Bridge Inn
Large family pub on Kingstown Road, open from nine in the morning. Big menu, generous portions, busy with families at weekends.
Part of Flaming Grill (Greene King)
- Today
- See opening hours
- Address
- Kingstown Road, Carlisle CA3 0AT
- Phone
- 01228 515294
History
Opened Late 1980s
Built and opened in 1985 by Daniel Thwaites. The name is the reason it's worth reading about. It was built where farmers used to cross the bridge driving their goslings to market. CAMRA put it slightly differently, saying it is named for a nearby stream the goslings used. Either way it records a real bit of landscape: a crossing where geese were walked to be sold.
Be straight about the building, though. Despite the 'Inn' and the marketing about being steeped in history, it's a large late-1980s hotel and pub, now with a Premier Inn attached. The history in the blurb belongs to the area, not to this building. The area claim does hold up: Hadrian's Wall runs close by, which puts it in the same Roman country as the Cumbria Park and Edenside, just as a modern pub near the line rather than on a documented site.
Locals call it the Goz.
Widely repeated locally, but we haven't found a source for it yet. Know one?
- Food
- Family friendly
- Near Hadrian's Wall
Photographs
Opening hours
| Mon | 09:00–23:00 |
| Tue | 09:00–23:00 |
| Wed | 09:00–23:00 |
| Thu | 09:00–23:00 |
| Fri | 09:00–23:00 |
| Sat | 09:00–23:00 |
| Sun | 09:00–22:30 |
Hours last checked August 2026, about 2 months ago.
Hours are kept by hand and change without warning. Ring ahead if it matters.
More like this
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Nearest to here
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740 maway
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1.3 kmaway
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1.3 kmaway
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1.3 kmaway
Lost in Kingstown
- Dog Inn gone 1917
- The Jovial Butcher gone 1906
- Black Bull, Kingstown gone 1842
- Cross Keys Beer House gone
Sources
- Mike Tuer, "Pubs of Carlisle" Day 210, Old Photos of Carlisle and Surrounding Area (Facebook)
Know more about this one?
History, a story, a correction, or just what it was called before: Gosling Bridge Inn is better on this site when locals fill it in.