In all there were 24 pubs and inns recorded in the two dales, of which eight were called the Board. In this north-eastern directory there were for example 15 Boards in Sunderland, nine in Chester-Le-Street, and also large numbers in rural parishes, such as 10 in Allendale and 10 in Ryton-on-Tyne.Ī subsequent directory for the North Riding, published by William White in 1840, covered more villages and hamlets in Swaledale and Arkengarthdale than its predecessor, and so the number of Boards increased. White was a former employee of Edward Baines, and was his protégé in directory publishing. Similar occurrences are found in a directory of Durham and Northumberland, published in 1827 by William White and William Parsons.
For the town of Scarborough, for example, Baines’s directory listed 69 pubs and inns, of which 11 were called the Board, while no other inn or pub name in the town appeared more than twice. That the name Board should have been so outstandingly popular seems quite extraordinary, especially as the name completely disappeared within the following 50 years.Īnd this curiosity wasn’t restricted to the two dales.
There were three King’s Heads and two CB Inns, but no other multiples of any other inn-name. A desk study of the old pubs and inns of Swaledale and Arkengarthdale seems to solve a 150-year-old mystery over the origins of the inn-name Board.Īn oddity in Edward Baines’s 1823 directory of the North Riding – the first such directory – is that out of 17 pubs and inns listed in Swaledale and Arkengarthdale, six were called the Board.
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