Claife Crier Bar

The Claife Crier Bar and Legends

Settle down with a pint of locally brewed Ales, in front of a real fire and enjoy relaxing in a true Cumbrian pub.

We serve tasty home cooked food all day, from 12 until 9pm, have a look at our menu for some of best hearty dishes in the Lake District.

The old stables were altered to a bar in 1971, now known as the Claife Crier Bar - named after the local ghost of legend, who is believed to be the ghost of a monk from Furness Abbey in Medieval times, whose mission was the rescue of a fallen woman. He apparently fell in love with one who rejected him and he went mad, dying, crying his anguish on the heights of Claife, which his ghost has haunted ever since. On one occasion, the ferryman mistook his cry for a call, and he went out for his fare. When he returned, his hair had turned white and he never spoke again. Subsequently, the ghost was exorcised and his spirit confined to the quarry known as the Crier of Claife Quarry (grid reference. SD 384981).

To this day there are stories of walkers being followed by a hooded figure at dusk on the heights of Claife...

The old beams in the bar are believed to be from ships wrecked on the Cumbria coast, which used to be a good source of sturdy beams used mostly in barns. It is possible that some may have come from wrecked ships from the Armada, many of the vessels being wrecked on the coasts of Cumberland and Northern Ireland.