Since 1663
Three and a half centuries of pints
A drovers’ inn, a walkers’ pub and now a little bit of both, with five rooms and a kitchen that takes itself seriously.
Jo and Callum
Jo grew up in the next village and pulled her first pint here at eighteen. Callum cooked in Manchester for fifteen years before deciding he would rather look at hills. They took on the inn in 2019, and now Jo runs the bar and the rooms while Callum runs the kitchen.
Everything we can, we buy within twenty miles: lamb from the Hartles at Hope, cheese from Hartington, ale from the brewers on our blackboard and bread from the bakery down the lane.
From the visitors’ book
- 1663
Built as a drovers’ inn on the packhorse route over the moors, with stabling for twenty ponies.
- 1890s
The railway arrives in the valley. Walkers from Sheffield start turning up every Sunday, and never stop.
- 1974
The last landlady, Peggy, keeps the bar going through three hard winters and a famous snowed-in New Year.
- 2019
Jo and Callum take over, restore the old stables into rooms and put a proper kitchen in.
