Economy
The village relies heavily on local businesses to support the economy, and such businesses provide an array of services, including property services, butchery, carpentry, driving schools and electrical repairs. However, due to the economic climate of recent times, several local businesses have shut down, prompting the Parish Council to set up a sub-committee, with the purpose of finding new ways to promote local businesses not only around the village but further afield.
Addingham has five pubs, The Fleece, The Crown, The Swan, The Sailor, and The Craven Heifer, and a social club that are all situated on Main Street. All the pubs in some form offer quizzes and live music. In September 2011, both the Craven Heifer and the Fleece closed. Since then, local businessman Craig Minto has taken over The Fleece, which reopened on 1 December 2011. The Craven Heifer briefly re-opened as a new Chinese Restaurant, run by the owners of Po Sang in Ilkley but closed again in June 2012 and is due to re-open in late summer 2012 under the same ownership as the Fleece. The Sailor also closed in June 2012 and remains closed at the time of writing (July 2012).
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