[2] In November 2024, its grounds were re-used for three buildings, housing Wendy's and Brightside Roadside, with the third to open as a Costa Coffee at a later date.

[4] An alternative, similar, account is that an unnamed con-artist, not specifically named as Turpin, made the landlord fall for the trick so the trickster could try and seduce the landlady.

[6] In The Great North Road (1974), Norman W. Webster writes: "Its original name was the Winchilsea [sic] Arms but by the middle of the eighteenth century it was generally known as the Ram Jam.

Imaginative legends have been invented to explain the curious title, the present sign showing a man stopping the holes of a cask with his fingers.

In 1878, Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale ran 100 miles from Knightsbridge Barracks to the inn in under 18 hours in order to win a bet.

[1] The novelist Margaret Drabble enjoyed staying at the inn, noting that the double glazing effectively masked the sound of traffic on the A1.