The Snickleway

Jim's York Pub Guide

The word is "cozy", if not middle-aged, to describe this pub. To give it a more racy edge, it claims to be York's most haunted pub (see below) and one of York's nine Ghost Tours leaves and finishes from here. (The guys that run these tours aren't all daft.) It's small inside, and there was a darts tourny on when I visited, meaning it was quite cramped too. It looks the part of the old pub though, with its black old beams, brass furnishings and unusual lay out, attracting what seemed to be a definately older and Yorkshire custom. Seemingly there is some sort of poem on sale behind the bar entitled "Bacchus turns to Ale", written and published in York hundreds of years ago, but I'm too tight to enlighten you any more on it.

Real Ale		Nearby Pubs to Crawl To:
Served one of the coldest pints of John Smiths I've had anywhere.		The Cross Keys
Other Information		The White Swan
Good on ghosts.		The Golden Lion
History Parts of the pub date to the 15th and 16th Century, so ghost stories are almost obligatory. You might glimpse the spectre of a four year old girl on the back stairs, killed by a brewer's dray, or feel the brush of Mrs Tulliver's pussy against your leg. Both she and her cat are said to haunt the inn. An Elizabethan man in a blue doublet has been seen behind the bar, and an old man sometimes walks through the pub and fades away. A more boisterous ghost haunts the cellar and throws spanners at barmen changing the barrels. Sometimes it is said that a smell of lavender prevades the whole pub, and it is known that during the Great Plague it was this scent that was used to stifle the odour of rotting corpses - the plague killed 3,512 citizens in 1604. Thanks to Pete Coxon's Yorks Historic Inns
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