sheffield hatter
18-07-2011, 16:49
I've got my doubts about the entry for the Border Rievers Inn (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/51431/). The address is Wellbank Gattonside, but the latter is the name of the village, so Wellbank is actually a house name, not a street. Check it out on Royal Mail: all the addresses in TD6 9NH are house name and then village name.
The only references I can find to this pub are in other listings websites - on the Scotland Business (http://www.scotland-business.net/border-rievers-inn.html) site there's a telephone number 01896 823217 but this belongs to Chapters Bistro in Melrose (http://www.melrose.bordernet.co.uk/traders/chapters/); on letandsold.com (http://www.letandsold.com/scotland/Scottish_Borders/Galashiels/Properties_to_sell.asp) there's a different number, 01835 870310, but this belongs to the Cross Keys Inn at Lilliesleaf (http://www.locallife.co.uk/scottishborders/moreinfo.asp?site=SCOTTISHBORDERS&p3link=25955&dispmode=map).
Finally, the word for a person who stole cattle in the borders was "Reiver" (not riever), like in this pub's name (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/6019/). An unlikely spelling mistake to make in the Borders area, I would suggest, and more likely to have been made by a bored data entry worker. :)
In the absence of a photo or review, I think this entry should be deleted.
(There is another establishment in this village that at first glance appears to be a pub: The Hoebridge Inn. I haven't been there, but the website (http://www.thehoebridgeinn.com/html/where.html) describes it as a restaurant. Perhaps there was some confusion between the two at some time when these databases were being put together.)
The only references I can find to this pub are in other listings websites - on the Scotland Business (http://www.scotland-business.net/border-rievers-inn.html) site there's a telephone number 01896 823217 but this belongs to Chapters Bistro in Melrose (http://www.melrose.bordernet.co.uk/traders/chapters/); on letandsold.com (http://www.letandsold.com/scotland/Scottish_Borders/Galashiels/Properties_to_sell.asp) there's a different number, 01835 870310, but this belongs to the Cross Keys Inn at Lilliesleaf (http://www.locallife.co.uk/scottishborders/moreinfo.asp?site=SCOTTISHBORDERS&p3link=25955&dispmode=map).
Finally, the word for a person who stole cattle in the borders was "Reiver" (not riever), like in this pub's name (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/6019/). An unlikely spelling mistake to make in the Borders area, I would suggest, and more likely to have been made by a bored data entry worker. :)
In the absence of a photo or review, I think this entry should be deleted.
(There is another establishment in this village that at first glance appears to be a pub: The Hoebridge Inn. I haven't been there, but the website (http://www.thehoebridgeinn.com/html/where.html) describes it as a restaurant. Perhaps there was some confusion between the two at some time when these databases were being put together.)