Red Lion Hotel, Skipton

A tedious Greene King eatery in the High Street, which could be a good pub but isn't. Numerous rooms in corporate decor had no 'life' whatever but were pretty full of diners so I suppose they know what they are doing. I was finally served (the staff were variously making coffee/cocktails and changing TV channels) with a rather-iffy Bradfield Farmers Blonde, with alternatives being Abbot or Yardbird (off anyway). One to make up the numbers only.

A good pub. I thought it was going to be bigger than it is. It does however consist of 2 rooms. The main room to the left houses the bar and here you will find 8 handpumps. A good variety of beers available and the pub was very busy today due to the footy and Saturday market day being on. I didn't check out the room to the right. Its a good pub.

Strangely a first visit to what is said to be Skipton's oldest pub, it's near the top of the High Street. Inside it's an odd shape probably due to wall removal, moving right to left there's a narrow seating area, a corridor, a large bar area with a huge screen, a couple of machines and a nice massive stone fireplace and then finally a raised slim bar area with the counter. Here you find eight pulls, only two from owners Greene King, Black Sheep Bitter, a couple of Moorhouses, and one each from Dent, Daleside and Rudgate. Obviously I went for the Dent but at 3.7% it was thin and unimpressive. There's a garden smoking area at the rear.