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Breweries · Yorkshire & the Humber

Samuel Smith's Old Brewery

Yorkshire's oldest brewery (1758) — Yorkshire Squares, shire horses, no concessions.

Sundial in St Mary's Churchyard, Tadcaster - geograph.org.uk - 7619340

Alan Murray-Rust — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

Plan your visit

Typical visit
1 h–1.5 h
Best time of year
Year-round (indoors)

About

Samuel Smith's at Tadcaster in North Yorkshire — Yorkshire's oldest brewery, founded in 1758 — still uses Yorkshire Squares (slate fermenting vessels), shire horses for local deliveries, and brews exclusively from its own well-water. Famously private (no public tours) but the historic brewery yard, the dray-horse stables and the chain of Samuel Smith's pubs across Britain represent an unbroken Victorian-Yorkshire brewing tradition.

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Coordinates
53.8853, -1.2628

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Samuel Smith's Old Brewery?
Samuel Smith's Old Brewery is in Yorkshire & the Humber, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 53.8853°, -1.2628°.
When was Samuel Smith's Old Brewery built?
Samuel Smith's Old Brewery dates to the Georgian era. The exact year of origin is not recorded in our open-data sources.