The Crown Inn, Askrigg - pub details
Address: Main Street, Askrigg, Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 3HQ [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 36971) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
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> Current user rating: 7.5/10 (rated by 6 users)
other pubs nearby:
Kings Arms, Leyburn (0.0 miles), White Rose Hotel, Askrigg (0.0 miles), Rose and Crown Hotel, Wensleydale (1.0 miles)
user reviews of the Crown Inn, Askrigg
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| The drinkers pub of the town. Found the Yorkshire Dales Brewing Company for the first time and had both pints - remember one was Butter Tubs - unsure of the other. Decent pub - would be my local if I lived here! Photos at my walking blog - http://mappiman.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/120416-day-2-yorkshire-dales-inn-way.html Mappiman - 18 Apr 2016 18:26 |
| The Crown is now run by a local family. Has Black Sheep Bitter, John Smiths Cask, Theakston Best & Black Bull plus a guest from Yorkshire Dales which is brewed in the village. This was Howgate a 4.1% light hoppy brew on a recent visit. Fires in 2 rooms including a splendid old range in the snug. Simple pub food available lunch & evening. Sells Wensleydale ice cream made locally and only available in the dale. plain Jersey very good. Look out for the homemade piccalilli and sweet pickled onion. Rocky53 - 5 Dec 2014 07:46 |
| Great beer, good food, a warm welcome and real fires. Dogs welcome no need to take off your boots from walking. The pub even boasts its own parliament. Jim [shortish powerful looking chap who you may actually see him behind the bar on certain times of the year] is one of the most obliging landlords I have come across. His passion for his beer is heartening as is his willingness to be helpful. My favourite is the Theakstons Bitter and the cask John Smith, which is completely different from the smooth flow JS. Just what the visitors to the up market time share around the back of the pub make of him is not clear, though they appear to revel in his blunt Yorkshire wit. wynyard - 29 Nov 2009 13:44 |
| This is an excellent unpretentious pub. I stayed there during the week whilst doing the Inn Way. The Theakstons Best was superb and great home made steak pie in huge portions. A proper pub! lambertsimnel - 19 Sep 2009 18:01 |
| Have been coming to Askrigg on and off over the last 20 years for a beery weekend thinly disguised as an end of season football tour against two of the local village teams. We usually get a tonking in the Sunday game but mainly because of a complete skinfull in the Crown, the night before. I have to say The Crown is my favourite of the drinking locations in the village of Askrigg If all you're after is a pint, then the Crown is a better bet than the Kings Arms. Its definitely more of a local drinkers pub and provides a friendly welcome. It�s mainly a one bar pub but with two slightly separate areas either side of the main bar, one of which has an open fire and the other one a dart board. Now as the village of Askrigg is built on a steep hill no surprises for guessing the location of The Crown when , in contrast to the Kings Head which is known as the �bottom pub�, this is known by the locals as the �top pub�. It went for many years under the other pseudonym of �Owen�s� after one Owen Metcalfe who was the owner and landlord from 1979 to when he retired in 2006. For us Londoners Owen was the archetypal Yorkshire man, in that irrespective of the copious amounts of cash we spent across the bar we never bloody saw him smile once. There�s now a lad called James who is the current landlord and from the experience of our last visit is keeping up the tradition of The Crown as a great watering hole for the Dale walkers, tourists and London pub teams who want a good pint. Which is usually Theakstons Best and Old Peculiar and sometimes XB, and Black Sheep Bitter. Oh and there is a food menu more aligned to Sausage or Gammon and Chips which is much more aligned to soaking up beer than the posh fair at the Kings Arms. Gann - 31 Mar 2009 17:16 |
