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Halliwell Sutcliffe first named the Old Silent Inn 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 including Halliwell Sutcliffe and Martha Grimes
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. With all the mysticism and tales that have been told, there is no escaping the fact that this historical Inn has had many a ghostly sighting, from two young children heard giggling to a ghostly bell and a large male figure seen at the bar. (supposedly killed defending Bonnie Prince Charlie). |
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