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The Bingley Arms is also a restaurant, and a former winner of the ''Yorkshire Evening Post'' Restaurant of the Year Award. [[The Automobile Association]] states it provides "charm" and "excellent food".<ref>{{cite web|title=Bardsey and Pompocali|url=http://www.theaa.com/walks/bardsey-and-pompocali-421274#information|work=AA website|publisher=Automobile Association (UK)|accessdate=24 August 2012}}</ref> |
The Bingley Arms is also a restaurant, and a former winner of the ''Yorkshire Evening Post'' Restaurant of the Year Award. [[The Automobile Association]] states it provides "charm" and "excellent food".<ref>{{cite web|title=Bardsey and Pompocali|url=http://www.theaa.com/walks/bardsey-and-pompocali-421274#information|work=AA website|publisher=Automobile Association (UK)|accessdate=24 August 2012}}</ref> |
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The [[beer garden]] is home to a [[Taxus baccata|yew tree]] that pre-dates the Bingley Arms |
The [[beer garden]] is home to a [[Taxus baccata|yew tree]] that pre-dates the Bingley Arms.{{cn|date=December 2013}} |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
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Revision as of 03:18, 6 October 2018
The Bingley Arms is a public house in Bardsey, Leeds, England. It claims to be both the oldest surviving business and oldest surviving pub in the UK.
Founding and history
The Bingley Arms was originally named The Priests Inn. The Bingley Arms calls itself the oldest pub in Britain, with a history dating back to between AD 905 and AD 953, and says that it served as a safe house for persecuted Catholic priests, and also as a courthouse from around AD 1000 from which offenders were taken to the pillory across the road.[1] The Bingley Arms was featured in a 2005 book review discussion on the invention of traditional public house history, "Great Pub Myths", and "claims to be... the oldest pub in Britain", published in the Yorkshire Evening Post.[2]
The Bingley Arms is also a restaurant, and a former winner of the Yorkshire Evening Post Restaurant of the Year Award. The Automobile Association states it provides "charm" and "excellent food".[3]
The beer garden is home to a yew tree that pre-dates the Bingley Arms.[citation needed]
See also
Notes
- ^ Bingley Arms Website
- ^ Fox, Geoff; "Beware mock heritage in our 'historic' pubs", Yorkshire Evening Post, 15 February 2005. Retrieved 16 December 2013
- ^ "Bardsey and Pompocali". AA website. Automobile Association (UK). Retrieved 24 August 2012.