Royalist

Sadly missing the The Bridge for Sunday Lunch, we decided to try The Royal Oak down in Appleby. We hadn’t been there for years. It was good.

Hard to take a photo because of the wooden structure all across the front. It has tables beneath it and I think it appeared during the pandemic. Not sure what purpose it serves now.

This is Bongate, which used to be the A66 before the bypass was built. The Royal Oak was a 16th century coaching inn. The name, which is frequently used for public houses, commemorates the time when the future Charles II hid in an oak tree to evade capture. Appleby was fiercely Royalist during the Civil War and many of the names of its inns reflect that.