The Old Silent Inn offers not only fine cuisine but a traditional pub steeped in history.
Although the pub dates back over 400 years earliest records show the premises to have been a family farming business in 1822.
The antiquity and mystique of the Old Silent has inspired several authors to write fictitious novels based upon the pub –
inspiring rumours that Bonnie Prince Charlie used to frequent the premises. The young Prince stayed at the inn for several
weeks, relying on the silence of the locals for his safety and freedom. The villagers were told to ‘keep silent’
hence the present name. Earliest records for the name of the Old Silent Inn date back to a book called Ricroft of Withins
by Halliwell Sutcliffe published in 1908.
