Sparrowpit and the Wanted Inn

This post  concerns the watering hole known as The Wanted Inn.

It was originally a farmhouse built in 1618 but in 1700 it became a public house for the first time and was known as The Three Tuns.

But by 1839 the name had changed to The Devonshire Arms.

But as coaches and taxis dropped people off there who thought they were at the place holding a function or a party or whatever people soon realised they were in the wrong pub. They should have traveled a bit further to Peak Forest to the Devonshire Arms situated there and was a much better pub.

So it was then renamed The Unwanted Inn.

Eventually it closed for many years and was then bought by the Buswell family whose son played the part of Ray Langton in Coronation Street who failed to turn up for filming one day and was eventually spotted as a Bank Manager in Las Vegas after firstly working in a casino.

The Buswells called it The Wanted Inn as it is known today.

Below are a couple of photos of the place during a Sparrowpit winter.

I am not forgetting Bennestone Hall which is alarge topic in its own right but shortly we must return to Dove Holes village itself.

Tony Beswick