Crook Inn

The Crook Inn is over 400 years old and is the oldest fully licensed pub in Scotland. It is located north of the small town Tweedsmuir in the valley of the Tweed in the Scottish Borders, approximately 45 kilometers south of Edinburgh.

The inn was founded in 1604 and was then coaching at one of the main routes between Edinburgh and Moffat ( current street: A701 ), or between Scotland and England. During the uprising Catholics end of the 17th century the Crook Inn to a meeting place and hiding the Presbyterians was. In the original kitchen of the Inn with the original stone floor today is the bar in the style of the early 17th century. Otherwise, the Crook Inn 1936 was modernized in the Art Deco style.

The Scottish poet Robert Burns visited the Crook Inn regularly and wrote his poem " Willie Wastles Wife". Even Sir Walter Scott and a few kilometers born John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir were inspired in their work by the landscape around Crook Inn.

In the 1890s, it was the meeting point of workers who were building a railway line for the new installation of the dam of Loch Talla. The water office in Edinburgh had chosen the lake in the mountains near Tweedsmuir as a location for a new water reservoir to supply the citizens of Edinburgh. The material for the dam had to be taken by the end of the line with the help of a cable on site. One of the financial backers of the railway project, John Best, was also a shareholder of the Crook Inn. Every Friday flocked the workers ( many of them from Ireland) to the inn to spend their just received wage - which her ​​employer, a large part of its spending took the same again.