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The Guardian - UK
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Robyn Vinter

The pub that changed me: ‘I was snowed in there for four days’

Robyn Vinter with a drink, laptop and notebook at the pub
Robyn Vinter, pictured at the Tan Hill Inn, in January 2025. Composite: Guardian Design; Courtesy of Robyn Vinter

The Tan Hill Inn, Yorkshire Dales

In all my years of reporting, nothing seems to fascinate people more than the four days I spent snowed in at Britain’s highest pub last year. It was early January and the Met Office had issued severe warnings for snow. It dawned on me that people were about to live out a British fantasy of being snowed in at their local pub. I knew where I needed to be: The Tan Hill Inn, high up in the wilderness on the very northern edge of the Yorkshire Dales national park.

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