Yorkshire Inn With a Quaint Name

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 18, 10 November 1933, Page 17

Yorkshire Inn With a Quaint Name

To the Editor, Sir,-On page 11 in-a recent "Radio Record" you have a paragraph mentioning the quaint names of four Yorkshire inns. May I add another to your list?’ Only two miles from my home-yery hilly miles-is a small "pub," from which no house can be seen, and which seems to have lodged there on the hillside, just below the wooded crest, quite by accident, for "no roads go by." Wield paths, yes, and even a rough cart track, but it was always on foot that we approached it, my father and I, in the course of our country walks, and five-year-old boys used to be glad of a rest on the bench under its front windows, with a view over wood and vale that seemed far too pastoral to belong, as they do, to the busy West Riding. The name of the inn is "Who Could Ha’ Thout It?" Certainly strangers newer "thout’’ of finding refreshment in such an out-of-

the-way spot, until the signboard enlightened them. The landlord was a quarryman, if I remember rightly, for the custom of the little place would barely have paid for his own and his wife’s porridge and

bacon.-I am, ete.

E.

DEWHIRST

New Brighton, Canterbury.