Can anyone help me locate the pub pictured in the year 2000 below. It was
then in the GPG. I think it is in mid devon somewhere. However most pubs
eem to have a web image somewhere and I have drawn a complete blank with
this. One possibility is that it is the Duke of York at Iddesleigh. Any
offers?

http://www.thirlby.net/devon%20pub.htm

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Rob Thirlby

In article <s4dMf.70538$0N1.3305@newsfe5-win.ntli.net>, rob thirlby
<r.thirlby@ntlworld.com> writes


It looks like The Duke of York in Iddesleigh, a pub with excellent beer
behind the bar, and excellent food. I go there often. In fact having now
done a Web search, it is The Duke of York, see:

http://www.specialplacestostay.co.uk...FileID=pub1995

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Ian G8ILZ

Many thanks. Yes it certainly did excellent food and beer when we made our
only visit in 2000 hence the desire to revisit in April.

Rob

Dear Mr. Thirlby --

I have just now, quite by accident, stumbled across your question about the
identity of a central Devon pub that you thought might be the Duke of York
in Iddelsleigh. I note that your questions is about 6 months old and is
probably ancient history by now, but if it's still an open issue, let me say
that it looks EXACTLY like the Duke of York, enough so that I would conclude
it to be the same. I have been to the Duke of York just once for lunch
while being driven by a friend (a local B&B cottage keeper in the
Chulmleigh/Winkleigh area) from the Eggesford rail station to Bideford for
my departure to Lundy Island in October 2002. I recall waiting for my wife
to come out of a gift/craft shop that would have been just on the other side
of the green car in you picture, and while waiting I studied the pub's
exterior. I remember quite clearly the "X" timbers below the thatching, the
"beer garden" sign, the narrow vertical slit windows on either side of the
fireplace and the church at the far end of the enclosed parking area.
Though having been there just once, it is my second favorite pub in all of
England behind only the Marisco Tavern (not really a pub but close enough
for an American) on Lundy.

As an annual pilgrim to Lundy, frequent visitor to North Devon and general
devotee of West Country pub culture, I was intrigued by a review I read very
recently in my local newspaper about a restaurant called the Duke of Devon
Pub in a community close to my home here in the US. Probably a shameless
cliche of fake Englishness, but intriguing nonetheless. While Googling "Duke
of Devon Pub" to find more about the establishment (there's nothing to be
found, so I guess I'll have to check it out first hand), I evidently entered
enough key words to be taken to this site. So that's how I found you. Hope
I was helpful.

Best regards,
Michael Kelly
Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA
mjkelly@ra.rockwell.com