THE owners of a newly-refurbished pub on the North York Moors have reached back into history for its new name - the Stapylton Arms.
The inn, in the village of Wass, was formerly called the Wombwell Arms, until it was taken over in the summer by new proprietors Robert and Gillian Thompson.
The pub was constructed about 1620 as a granary and became an ale house in 1645. In 1739 the inn became known as the Stapylton Arms following the purchase of the entire village by the Stapylton family of Myton-on-Swale.
The name remained until 1896 when the village was bought by Sir George Wombwell, of nearby Newburgh Priory. Although the village and pub were sold off from the Wombwell estate in 1924, the pub’s name stuck.
Gillian said: “We wanted a new name so that we could establish it as our own and build on our reputation.”
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