Black Bull

In the square at the top of Main Street sits the Black Bull, a homely traditional pub serving meals and full range of drinks including local real ales. It is famously where Branwell Brontë spent many an hour holding court with wild stories and toasts, or brooding darkly over a whisky. As his alcohol addiction increased he was known to travel further afield to inns in Halifax, perhaps to avoid the embarrassment of being hauled home by his father, the vicar of the next door church. The pub proudly displays the chair Branwell occupied, although as it is damaged it is now kept behind a barrier up the short staircase in the middle of the pub.