This is a very interesting inn--this former Georgian bathing inn was the seed around which the resort and town of Mablethorpe grew in the 19th & 20th centuries. Earliest record I have of it is 1792; it was originally the Mablethorpe Hotel or the Sign of the Castle.

https://twitter.com/SkegMableRegen/status/1591852392663826432

As well as offering bathing of a superior sort, it also makes an appearance in local court cases, as in 1838, when two local smugglers tried to get the local coastal preventative officers drunk at the Book in Hand before landing a cargo of tobacco, spirits etc at Crook Bank...

In other news, I'm pleased to say that this volume is now available—it includes my chapter 'Britain, the Byzantine Empire, and the Concept of an Anglo-Saxon ‘Heptarchy’: Harun
ibn Yahya’s Ninth-century Arabic Description of Britain', if you fancy a read! boydellandbrewer.com/9781783276868/… For a little more on this book, check out this blogpost by one of the editors, Karen Louise Jolly, which I've just noticed includes a 35% off code for the volume! :-)

https://twitter.com/boydellbrewer/status/1511339917581987851?t=Frc3h3ovyLwI6l8jt0rLxg&s=19

The 9th-century Anglo-Saxon Trewhiddle hoard, found 1774 in an old tin-working near St Austell, Cornwall: britishmuseum.org/collection/obj… The Fuller Brooch, a late 9th-century Anglo-Saxon silver and niello brooch showing the five senses with Trewhiddle-style animals: britishmuseum.org/collection/obj…