Evidence in the court roll, inventories, and parish register indicates that there has been a pub on the site of the ‘Balmoral’ since (at least) 1675, and its history can be traced to present times. The other well-known hostelry in the village was the ‘The Black Bull’ that was established in the eighteenth century, and continued in use for around a hundred years. What is less well known is that for a short spell in the middle of the nineteenth century there was a third pub, a beershop, in Swales Garth. This booklet traces their history.
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The aim of this work is to establish the nature of the field-system in Husthwaite township during the medieval period, to ascertain the location of the open-fields, to chart the progress from open-field to enclosure in the 17th and 18th centuries, and to determine the location of the last selions in Husthwaite. This also includes a map showing the nineteenth century field-names, and, where they are known, the names of the medieval flatts in Husthwaite township.