Several of the houses in Alstonefield have been Public Houses in their time including the Crewe and Harpur and the Red Lion, now Fynderne House, but now we have two excellent hostelries, the George, on the Village Green and the Watts-Russell Arms in Hopedale.

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"Ale if you please, for a man shall not come from London to drink wine in the Peak"

Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler (1653).