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Jun 2022
Harrogate's Nelson Inn sold to pub restaurant chain
The Nelson Inn on the A59 is set to reopen in the autumn following a takeover by a pub restaurant chain.
Brunning and Price said today it was "thrilled" to have received the keys for the 18th century inn, which has changed hands several times in recent years.
The new owners have a portfolio of 80 pub restaurants, including the Highwayman in Kirkby Lonsdale and the Bull at Broughton.
They plan to spend the next few months refurbishing the Nelson Inn, which is on Skipton Road in Killinghall, before a planned reopening in early October.
Former popular Harrogate French restaurant Chez la Vie owned the pub in 2019, before new owners took it on in 2020, which also saw a sweet shop and ice cream parlour launched at the site on Skipton Road.
Mary Willcock, managing director at Brunning and Price, said:
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The Nelson Inn was built around 1776 and remained a private house until early in the 19th century.
For much of its early years the pub used to be more or less a farm with a sack over the door where locals came in for a drink.
It received its name around 1805 when Nelson was victorious at the Battle of Trafalgar and it has remained all that time, except for its short spell as Chez La Vie in 2019.
Brunning and Price is set to launch a recruitment drive for the pub, with job opportunities including management, chefs, front of house, cleaners and gardeners.
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