The Cumberland Inn, Carlisle

Walking into this pub is like looking through sepia coloured glasses into the past. With it mosaic tiled floor, dark wood panels stained glass partitions and old obscure photographs its no wonder it is in the National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors. However the beer lets it down. Only one real ale (Lancaster Blonde) not a lot for a town centre pub which in the past made the good beer guide every year. So on this score the pub needs to try harder. Botchergate has quite a few real ale pubs (The Woodrow Wilson, The William Rufus, The Griffin and The Cumberland) all within walking distance of the railway station but these pubs can get a little rowdy on a weekend.

Big old pub between two JDW's, yes 2. Used to have a fine collection of railway stuff but this has gone. Not as god as it was but still well worth a visit. There are several more down the road worth a short walk Malky from Otley