Nearly 40 people, including staff and customers, are stranded at Tan Hill Inn, the highest pub in Britain, due to heavy snow. While they were unable to leave, they have been entertained with board games and enjoying the warm hospitality of the pub staff.
Roads are blocked and cars are coated in ice, preventing escape from Tan Hill Inn, North Yorkshire . Pubgoers found themselves on a longer trip than planned after visiting the highest pub in Britain amid yellow weather warnings due to snow. Nearly 40 people – 32 customers and six staff – are snowed in at Tan Hill Inn, North Yorkshire , which sits 1,732ft above sea level.
They’ve been there since Saturday night when temperatures dropped to -10°C and several airports grounded flights due to heavy snow. ‘On a lonely hill high in the Yorkshire Dales’, as the 17th century pub describes its surroundings, snow fell so thick, customers couldn’t leave. ‘I think it’s hilarious’, said Paul Wright, from Australia’s Northern Territory, where temperatures are 36°C and an excessive heat warning is in place. ‘Driving through Scotland and York, the amount of snow we’ve seen covering everything is unbelievable, we can’t believe how white everything is.’ Paul, 52, and his wife Naomi were supposed to make it to London for a West End production of Harry Potter by now. Instead, they’ve been sat playing cards and board games with others hauled up in the isolated pub, which has seven guest rooms. Paul said: ‘There’s a lovely group of people here, the people that run this place are so warm and welcoming and friendly. ‘The poor staff that are here were all meant to go out the other day, they’ve had to stay because they’re snowed in, and these guys are working from like five-thirty and six in the morning through to 11 at night. ‘I’m sitting at the window at the moment watching one of them shovel snow off the steps so people can walk outsid
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