Skeeby is a small village between Richmond and Scotch Corner, in North Yorkshire, and with over 1000 years of recorded history, Skeeby is listed in the Domesday Book. Like many small villages, Skeeby once had a thriving local community with a village shop, post office, pub, church, chapel and village hall. Unfortunately, that sense of community has in recent years been undermined by the loss of our village facilities.

The Skeeby Community Pub Society Ltd was established to buy the Traveller's Rest for the village, in response to the purchase of the property from Newcastle breweries by a property developer who wanted to turn it into a dwelling house. 

The Travellers Rest as a valued community asset would be a great loss to the village. 

In May 2010, the Society made an offer to purchase The Travellers Rest from the current owner (the property developer) at a sum representing a 17% profit to the applicant on his purchase price prior to any refurbishment works being undertaken. This offer was refused.

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