The Inn at the Top: Tales of Life at the Highest Pub in Britain

Neil Hanson,Tom Faraday

The Inn at the Top: Tales of Life at the Highest Pub in Britain
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
26 September 2013
Pages
256
ISBN
9781782431558

The Inn at the Top: Tales of Life at the Highest Pub in Britain

Neil Hanson,Tom Faraday

The delightful tale of a young couple who in the late 1970s, on impulse, became the new landlords of the most remote, bleak and lonely pub - The Tan Hill Inn - located in the desolate landscape of the Yorkshire Dales.
Having seen an article in the newspaper about the pub’s search for a new manager, they arrived just three weeks later as the new landlords of the The Tan Hill Inn. It is a wild, wind-swept place, set alone in a sea of peat bog and heather moorland that stretches unbroken as far as the eye can see. With only sheep and grouse for company, their closest neighbour was four miles away and the nearest town twelve. They had no experience of licensed trade or running a pub, no knowledge of farming and a complete inability to understand the dialect of the sheep farmers who were their local customers. Eager, well-meaning, but in over their heads, our two heroes embarked on a disaster-strewn career that somehow also turned into a lifelong love affair with the Dales. The Inn at the Top is an entertaining ramble around the Inn, the breath-taking Dales countryside and a remarkable array of local characters, giving an insight into life in a very different different time and place.

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