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issue 04 December 2021

Thirsty work

Sixty-one pub-goers on a night out in the Tan Hill Inn, 1,500 feet up in the Pennines in West Yorkshire, were snowed in for three nights with an Oasis tribute band. Manager Nicola Townsend said everyone was in good spirits and that some people did not want to leave. Some other pubs with a tricky journey home:

— Berney Arms in Norfolk is inaccessible by public road and can only be visited by boot, by boat, or, bizarrely, by train, as it has one of the country’s least-used railway stations. The pub has been closed since 2015, although there have been attempts to reopen it.

— The Old Forge at Inverie on the Knoydart peninsula in the Western Highlands is an eight-mile boat ride from Mallaig or a five-hour hike from the nearest public road at Kinloch Hourn, which itself lies at the end of a 23-mile single-track road.

— The restaurant at Corrour Station on the West Highland line between Bridge of Orchy and Fort William can only be visited by train or via a 20-mile hike.

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