38 Sheep Street
Skipton
North Yorkshire
BD23 1HY
01756 700966
info@woollysheepinn.co.uk
Hotel, Traditional Town Pub
Skipton has become a top beer town in recent years with lots of new high quality micropubs, but Taylor’s Woolly Sheep still flys the flag for solid traditional pubs (photo 1). It sells the full range of the Keighley based brewery’s cask ales, including the rare dark mild and you’ll usually find one of their seasonal beers as well. The kitchen is open from noon until mid evening serving an impressively large range of pub favourites, and you might find it hard to get a seat at popular mealtimes. It’s definitely not a dining pub though, and drinkers are welcome.
There’s a comfortable lounge at the front of the pub, a stone flagged public bar at the rear (photo 2) and a large modern restaurant. The pub has 12 ensuite bedrooms so it’s a great place for a weekend break. It’s right in the centre of town at the bottom of the High Street/Market Place.
The unusual pub name, despite sounding vaguely traditional, is actually unique and relatively recent. It was called the Brick Hall until Whitbread sold off all their pubs in the 1990s and Taylors acquired their only pub in the town. They thought the name was a bit dull so asked the locals to give it a new name and the Woolly Sheep was the result. The superfluous adjective is odd, but the pub is on Sheep Street and Skipton means ‘sheep town’ so maybe just go with it!
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