A Hidden Gem: September 2009

Tuesday, 22 September 2009

Forthcoming Wedding Fayre

The Shireburn Arms Hotel is hosting a Wedding Fayre on Sunday 4th october, 2009 between 12.00 - 4.00pm. A host of stalls awaits you from Chair Covers to Cakes and Photographers to Wedding Cars. Each stall holder will be able to help you with details for your special day as well as members of the Shireburn management team who can help with any details for holding your wedding celebrations at The Shireburn Arms itself.

Bridal show is at 2pm.

Don't miss out.

History of The Shireburn Arms

The Shireburn Arms is a little corner of Old England for you to savour. When it began life in 1679 it was a farm with a series of outbuildings. Stonyhurst College, just one mile away is one of the finest buildings in Lancashire and all England, acclaimed even by Alec Clifton-Taylor. A Jesuit school of enviable reputation and responsible for the schooling of many influential authors, Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes), J.R Tolkien (Lord of the Rings), the seven Victoria Cross's and the setting of many period dramas and films.
In fact, the Shireburn Coat of Arms appears only in the College and in stained glass in the hotel.
This historic hotel itself comprises of three buildings which have been sensitively combined to provide a place of charm and character.

The "Sherburn" was sold by the Weld family in 1831 and then run as a hotel by Richard Parker. His daughter, a Dominican nun, inherited the "Sherburn" and it became a convent from 1856. It was then sold to Stonhurst College in 1866, who then owned it until 1975, and was run by various landlords as a hotel. On an interesting note, the wife of an earlier publican, Ralph Holden, was said to have murdered one of his relatives in 1834. However, she claimed that she "had only put the arsenic in the tea pot, he had chosen to drink the tea." She was hung at Lancaster Castle.

Tuesday, 22 September 2009

Forthcoming Wedding Fayre

Shireburn Lounge

Shireburn Pictures