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In 2014 the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) produced a book titled "Yorkshire's Real Heritage Pubs" (ISBN 978-1-85249-315-8). These are pubs that might be listed for their exterior architecture, or serve great real ale, but not all: inclusion in the collection is for their unaltered historic interiors representing mostly the Victorian and Edwardian era with features such as brass, carved wood, real fires, mosaics and tiling. This shared description will cover the 36 listed in North Yorkshire as I visit them.

A Samuel Smith's pub now some way outside the urban area of modern Bilton (itself now a suburb of Harrogate). The old village (such as it was) would probably not have supported a pub, and it was probably a domestic house originally that evolved to be a beer house on the ancient route to Knaresborough, and later fully converted to commercial use.

The building is listed grade II (list entry 1149463). It is on CAMRA's regional inventory of historic interiors, mainly for the tap room furnishings and traditional beer house layout.

The spelling of the name (or at least the position of the apostrophe) is also uncertain: the 1909 OS map has Gardeners' Arms, most modern references have Gardener's, but the pub sign SE3157 : The Gardeners Arms, Old Bilton has no apostrophe - but then neither does the oldest OS map of 1854.