Advantages: Good pub/restaurant food, friendly staff, inexpensive. Disadvantages: Busy, tables a little cramped, a long wait for food.
The Dore Moor pub is situated on the outskirts of Dore in Sheffield, on the Hathersage Road. Not being too familiar with this area of Sheffield, I checked my A-Z and found that the Hathersage Road runs into Ecclesall Road South. Thus; jump on Eccy Rd from town (for non Sheffieldians this is the A625 heading towards Castleton) and keep driving straight ahead!
Its an old public house; research showed that it was originally built to serve stagecoach ... ...Vintage Inns took the pub over and (allegedly) spent £1.2m on a revamp for the place, including the "Disneyfication" of its Inn sign. Today it is aimed at the motorised tourist, and apparently "if you are a walker or dog owner, your dirty boots and hound are no longer welcome here" (source Bradway Bugle guide to walking). Personally, I didn't see any walkers, but the landlady and staff were that welcoming that I wouldn't think that walkers would ...
indiegirl 25.09.2002 (29.09.2002)
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Advantages: Good Views. Decent Food Disadvantages: No Atmosphere, No Character
The Dore Moor Inn is a very well known Public House in Sheffield. It sits high above the Western fringe of the City and was originally an old Stagecoach Inn. Beyond here the Hathersage Road (A625) continues on into the Peak District National Park and towards Castleton.
The original Inn was built during the 18th century and became a popular stopover place for the Stagecoaches travelling between Sheffield and Manchester. Back in those days this place ... ...the Duke of Devonshire who owned the majority of the land in this area.
In 1821 a meeting took place at this Inn in which the Dore Old School Board of Trustees hired Richard Furness as Master. Richard Furness became a very well known and respected English Poet, earning himself the title, Poet of Eyam, due to the many Poems that he wrote about that Village.
By 1906 the Devonshire Arms had changed its name to the Dore Moor Inn, taking its new name ...
micksheff 10.04.2007
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