Pack it Inn ... tiniest bar sets a record

Thirty drinkers – and a plastic dog – squeezed into the smallest bar in Yorkshire in an attempt to set a new record.

By The Newsroom

Published 17th May 2010, 10:52 BST

Updated 17th May 2010, 10:52 BST

The bar at the Birch Hall Inn at Beck Hole in the heart of the North

York Moors measures just 6ft by 8ft.

But the thirsty group all managed to fit in to what is believed to be the region's smallest bar at the launch of a guidebook The Inn Way...to the North York Moors by author Mark Reid, above, centre.

He launched the first edition 10 years ago at the pub when 27 people fitted into the bar, a record which had not been broken until yesterday.

There are six books in the Inn Way series which cover all the national parks of Northern England. The latest has been fully updated with information about local accommodation, services and public transport – and beer.

Mr Reid gave up a career in the brewing industry in 1997 to pursue his writing dream and has now completed 17 books about the North.

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