A large number of licensing records have survived in the archives of Cumberland Quarter Sessions, now at Carlisle Record Office [Ref. CQL/]. Here are some entries relating to Eskdale and Ravenglass.
CQL 2/1: Allerdale-over-Derwent alehouse recognizances 3 Oct 1753 (no sign names)
Wm. Shirwen, Irton, £10 (sureties John Dickenson & Stephen Sharp, £10 each)
Anthony Parker, Birkby, £10 (surety Thos. Booth, Ravenglass, £10)
Jo. Askew, Waberthwaite, £10 (surety Wm. Crowdson, £10)
Stephen Sharp, Irton, £10 (surety John Dixon, Wasdale, £10 [for whom SS stood surety])
Wm. Crowdson, Eskmeales in Bootle, £10 (surety Willm. Shelding, £10)
John Hudson, Muncaster, £10 (surety John Gaitskill, £10)
Joseph Brownrig, Ravenglass, £10 (surety Wm. Kilner, £10)
Henry Parish, Irton, £10 (surety Thos. Booth, £10)
Isaac Cuppage, Ravenglass, £10 (surety Geo. Birket, £10)
Geo. Birket, Muncaster, £10 (surety Isaac Cuppage, £10)
Isaac Mawson, Irton, £10 (surety Hen. Nicholson, £10)
Henry Nicholson, Irton, £10 (surety Isaac Mawson, Irton, £10)
Ralph Fowler, Ravenglass, £10 (surety Thomas Aery, Egremont, £10)
Edward Jackson, Eskdale, £10 (surety Henry Brough, Egremont, £10)
John Braithwaite, Ravenglass, Black Horse, £30 (surety Jonathan Whinneray, Ravenglass, innkeeper, £20)
Peter Bell, Muncaster, The Broad Oak, £- (sureties John Lennox, Lorton, innkeeper, £30 + Henry Crawford, Whitehaven, painter, £30)
John Kitchin, Bower House, ", £30 (surety Isaac Wilson, Eskdale, innkeeper, £20)
Crispin Pharaoh, Eskdale, The Mason's Arms, £30 (surety William Vickers, Eskdale, innkeeper, £20)
Francis Patrickson, Ravenglass, The Robin Hood, £- (sureties Thomas Hodgson, Whitehaven, innkeeper, £30 + George Mawson, Sandwith, husbandman, £30)
William Vickers, Eskdale, The Wool Pack, £30 (surety Crispin Pharaoh, innkeeper, £20)
Jonathan Whinneray, Ravenglass, The King's Arms, £30 (surety John Braithwaite, Ravenglass, innkeeper, £20)
Isaac Wilson, Eskdale, The King of Prussia, £30 (surety John Kitchen, Bower House, innkeeper, £20)
CQL 1/1: Cumberland County Licensing Committee Minute Book
Grand Jury Room, Carlisle, 1 Oct 1895:
"Mr Chapman Solr. of Whitehaven appeared on behalf of Mrs Elizabeth Carter of Stanley Ghyll to apply for the confirmation of the license granted at Bootle by the Licensing Justices on the 10th day of October [mistake for September?] 1895 to the said Elizabeth Carter for the Stanley Ghyll Hotel Beckfoot Eskdale.
The Committee having heard Mr Chapman's statement and examined the license confirmed it."
