The Inn's Last 800 Years Have Seen Time Stand Still

This is a story of passion, intrigue, and even ghosts. It covers the period of 800 years and dates back to the time of the Crusaders and the time of the legendary outlaw Robin Hood. In the year 1187 Seljukian Turks, Saracens, conquered Jerusalem again in the name of Islam. Enraged, the Europeans embarked on a crusade to recapture the city and marched down to the Holy Land.

They were led by Phillip August of France, and King Richard I of England and so was their zeal that even Richard sold everything to finance this third crusade ... church and the crown of countries, titles, offices of state, he levied taxes and fleeced English Barons. But all to no avail as Saladin, the Saracen king, beat back the Christians and retained Jerusalem.

At the heart of the English Midlands, lay the city of Nottingham, where the castle is built on a sandstone hill, overlook the Nottinghamshire village. Here he lived Sheriff of Nottingham, who according to legend, was constantly plagued by his opponent, Robin Hood. Warren Hill is riddled with caves that for many people in Nottingham was home.

River Leen flowed at the foot of the hill where the castle is on the banks of the river brewery house was established in 1097 to cook for the castle of passengers. Water for the beer is drawn from the river until the soil com treadmill near the brewery. During the Third Crusade brewery house, which until now has become the inn, served as a resting place for the Knights on their way to join their king on crusade.

inn soon became known as "You Tryppe in Jerusalem" (an ancient English word "tryppe" derives from the Latin word meaning "to stop or rest"). The inn has gained some notoriety when Queen Isabella, wife of King Edward II, entertain her lover Mortimer in Nottingham Castle. Romantics believed that Isabella, who made ​​a virtual prisoner by the king, Mortimer got into the castle after it had gained entry climbing Inn is 20 meters long chimney, which was known to lead to a secret passage in the castle.

Isabella eventually fled with a lover in France, where in 1326 she was deposed by her husband and then challenged his murder in Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire English country. The inn remained in the ownership of the castle until 1621, when James I granted the separation of the order to create what was then the smallest parish in England consists of about five houses, breweries, and the population of only thirty people.

to the rear of the building and carved from the hill are two large cells that are served to inmates, including those who were sentenced to death. cells still have wrought iron gates and set up on the walls were iron rings that were shackled prisoners. In the vicinity of the brewery yard stick from which many of these unfortunates must have swung when the punishment law was implemented.

In the 19th century Nottingham Castle was burnt down and replaced by the present building. Around the same time, the journey to Jerusalem came into the hands of the family Ward, Georgina Marshall licenses today is a descendant of George "Yorky" the first of the Ward family for launch of space. For the inn, which is said to be the oldest in England, the last 800 years it was time to stop and continue. River Leen is now covered and can not see. But the inn buildings are still the same as they ever were, and even the old housing above bar is still in use. There are rooms here that Georgina had not yet seen, and that after 15 years of living there. But perhaps it is not surprising because the inn is reputed to be haunted, and even now glasses mysteriously crushed.