The Kings Arms Hotel is a

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in the English village of

Askrigg Askrigg is a small village and civil parish in Wensleydale in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, part of the county of North Yorkshire, England. The village and its parish are located in Upper Wensleydale, west of Leyburn, and east of Hawes. ...

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. A

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, standing on the northern side of Main Street, it dates to 1767. The inn was built by John Pratt, a local man who had made his fortune as a

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. John and Joseph Lodge purchased the pub in 1800.

''All Creatures Great and Small''

The pub doubled as

Darrowby Darrowby is a fictional village in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England, which was created by author Alf Wight under the pen name of James Herriot as the setting for the veterinary practice in his book ''It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet''. The book ...

's Drovers Arms in the BBC television series '' All Creatures Great and Small'' (1978–1990). Photographs on its interior walls showed the cast drinking at the establishment during downtime."All Creatures Great & Small"
– The Kings Arms website The Drovers was made out to be located beside the church in the early series, as evidenced in the episode "The Name of the Game". "It was fun to design the Drovers, which later on they did on location in Askrigg," explained designer David Crozier. "But in the early days these scenes were all done at Pebble Mill."''All Memories Great & Small'', Oliver Crocker (2016; MIWK)

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File:Kings Arms, Askrigg, July 2011.jpg, The pub's main entrance in 2011, including a sign for W. M. Youngers Brewery. St Oswald's Church is in the background

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''All Creatures Great and Small''

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