Pooter's Inn at the Cleikum Traditional Cache
Rosserllwyd: The entire site has been cleared - looks like a house will be built here
Pooter's Inn at the Cleikum
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A 'Cache and Dash' if ever their was one. A decent sized lay-by at the site of this old Coaching Inn - the Cleikum Inn. A very busy road with fast traffic. Please carefully replace the camouflage after your find.
The name Cleikum may be related to the 'Cleikum Inn' which features in Sir Walter Scott’s novel 'St Ronan’s Well', in which the 'Cleikum Club' met in the 'Cleikum Inn', so called from the sign-post showing the Saint catching the Devil.
Meg Dods, landlady of the Cleikum Inn, is a formidable hostess in the book, who runs a well organised hostelry with high standards of cleanliness and a distinct partiality regarding the social standing of her guests. This may explain why the name was taken up by many inns throughout the country - a 'Clickum Inn' survives near Penrith. The name is derived from a unique ceremony the “Cleikum Celebrations.” According to the ancient story, St Ronan met the evil one and “cleekit him” well and truly by the “hint leg” and vanquished him with the only weapon to hand, the Cleikum Crook, a replica of which is carried by the “Patron Saint” during these celebrations at Innerleithen, near Edinburgh. A boy takes the part of the Patron Saint. (A 'Cleik' in Scots is a metal pole from which a pot was hung to heat over a fire.)
The real Mistress Dods was the landlady of the Cleikum Inn near Peebles which hosted the gatherings of the Cleikum Club. The aim of the club, which counted Sir Walter Scott among its members, was to celebrate our Scottish national literature. They certainly were among the first organisations to celebrate a Burns' Night. Mistress Dods was a superb cook and rigorous task-master. Staff ' and guests ' trembled before her! Her major publication 'The Cook's and Housewife's Manual' had the same iconic relationship to Scottish cuisine as that of Mrs Beaton to households south of the border. The name of the Inn may reflect the popularity of Sir Walter Scott's novels at the time.
The Cleikum Inn at Auchentiber may have lost out to competition from the 'Blair Tavern' and inns located at Burnhouse..
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