Est. 953
This is a pretty colourful pub in Bardsey, North Leeds in the UK and it’s the oldest pub on the island. It dates back to at least 953, when a publican named Samson Ellis began brewing ale on the premises. Some historians even go as far as suggest that the pub started as far back as 905.
The pub was also notorious for sheltering Catholic priests during the Dissolution of the Monasteries during the 1530s and 1540s, and was knows as the Priests’ Inn until the 1780 when it was renamed the Bingley Arms.
Given that it’s over a thousand years old, it stands to reason that it’s haunted, with people claiming to see a laughing cavalier and a phantom dog.
