The Baskerville Arms Hotel

Broadband is fixed in most areas but please note, we do not have televisions in our rooms. We hope you don’t miss them in this beautiful part of the country. The first historical records of this former coaching inn, in antiquity known as ‘The Swan’, shows Thomas Lilevale as innkeeper, it was included in the 1815 list of pubs which undertook to keep good order. The inn is mentioned again in 1842, this time as the White Swan, when two barristers, appointed to revise the List of Voters in the election of a Knight of the Shire, met there for the Hundred of Painscastle. In the 1851 census the inn, now called the Baskerville Arms, was run by Peter Chaloner, aged 56, also described as a farmer of 126 acres. He lived there with his wife, Arabella, and two grown up children together with a land surveyor and two house servants. However, in Kilvert’s Diary, the inn was still called The Swan. He noted in 1870: