Welcome to The Ship Inn at Middlestone Situated in the historic village near Bishop Auckland Co Durham.

May we take this opportunity to welcome you to The Ship, our home and our idea of a traditional English country pub. We provide quality food, using local produce where possible, a wide variety of real ales, wine,whisky and a convivial atmosphere.

Customers are the most important visitor on our premises.

They are not dependant on us, we are dependent on them.

They are not an interruption to our work, they are the purpose of it.

They are not an outsider to our business; they are a part of it.

We are not doing them a favour by serving them, they are doing us a favour by giving us an opportunity to do so.