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The Crown Inn, Leyburn
Askrigg
Postal town: Leyburn
DL8 3HQ
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 7½ of 10) see review guidelines
Blue Scrumpy left this review about The Crown Inn
The Crown Inn is the furthest east of the 3 village pubs. However, they're all only a small stroll apart. You enter into the main bar area. 2 other customers were having lunch in the tiny snug to the left-hand side when we arrived, whilst there is a larger dining room off to the right.
Theakston Best Bitter & Wensleydale Semer Water are the regular ales. Guests were Wensleydale Gamekeeper & Falconer, whilst there were also 3 Lilley's ciders available - Mulled, Passion Fruit Martini & Gladiator.
Staff were friendly. It was a shame that when we moved on, we left an empty pub.
On 7th January 2024
- rating: 6
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Steve of N21 left this review about The Crown Inn
Almost 15 years since my last visit to Askrigg we are back for an extended weekend in this Wensleydale village and it was good to find all three of the hostelries still going.
Of these the Crown continues to be the most traditional pub experience and the one favoured by the locals for a session.
The pub has been modified slightly since my last visit and now has a larger dining room section to the right and plusher toilets to the back, but these changes have not altered the ambiance of the pub.
The main bar in front of you as you enter is also now slightly larger and, alongside some typical Yorkshire humour on the top chalk board supports four hand pumps along the bar top. Theakston Best is a permanent fixture and the other three had brews from the Leyburn based Wensleydale Brewery for our visits, namely Falconer, Semer Water and Gamekeeper Best Bitter. All were in excellent condition and I had forgotten what an excellent pint Theakston Best is when it is kept this well.
Traditional pub food is available and the home cooked Steak and Ale pie was a thing of beauty.
On 19th January 2023
- rating: 8
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Ian Mapp left this review about The Crown Inn
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
On 18th April 2016
- rating: 8
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Steve of N21 left this review about The Crown Inn
Have visited the village of 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. The Crown is my favourite of the drinking locations in the village of Askrigg. Its a traditional local village pub and if all you're after is a pint and a decent lunch, then the Crown is a better bet than the Kings Arms down the hill. 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 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 football teams who want a good pint. Which is usually Theakstons Best and Old Peculiar and sometimes XB, and Black Sheep Bitter. The food menu on offer is 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..
On 31st March 2009
- rating: 8
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