The view looking from the Stanley Arms toward shutlingslow near macclesfield forrest

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The History of The Stanley Arms

Prior to 1906 The Stanley Arms was a working farm. The licence for the pub was transferred from the School Rooms in Macclesfield Forest in 1906, and for many years The Stanley Arms was both a working farm and public house.

Originally called The Derby Arms, named after Lord Derby, it changed its name before the Second World War, to the Stanley Arms (Stanley being the family name of Lord Derby of Knowsley). The pub in recent times has been a tenancy of Marstons Brewery and is now part of The Union Pub Company, Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries.

We are not sure who the original Landlord was, but in 1908 Earnest Bullock took over and ran the pub for the next 50 years! Below is a list to present day:

1958-74 Walter Biddulph

1974-77 Jack Betts

1977-79 Tony Costello

1979-83 Tony Davis

1983-94 Alan Harvey

1994-96 Rueben Rowlands

1996 to date: Adrian and Carolyn Taylor

These dates are approximate, so if anyone knows different please let us know. Another interesting point is that Tony Davis who ran the Bate Hall in Macclesfield, and Tony Costello who ran the Stanley Arms, decided to swap pubs. It was Tony Davis who changed the pool room into a restaurant.

The pub was at one time renowned for its �Tea Room� situated in a wooden hut, in what is now the pub car park. It has been suggested that the wooden �Tea Room� was the originally the jockey�s changing room at Aintree. We can still see the old hut from the pub, as it now resides just up the road at Tor Gate Farm.

Below is an old picture of the pub, probably pre-Second World War, showing the �Tea Room� on the left of the picture.

As stated above, the pool room was changed into a restaurant by Tony Davis around 1980, and Tony started to develop the Stanley Arms reputation for good food. This is a tradition that we have re-established, and intend to maintain.

We have converted a barn adjacent to the property into seven letting rooms. The luxury bedrooms have been available for occupancy since mid August.

The pictures below show the work undertaken to convert the barn .

Click on the gallery for images of the completed rooms

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