The Cross Keys in Carleton Village (from Old English ‘ceorl’ or carle, charle, meaning farmer or free peasant and ‘ton’ a ville or settlement) once stood at a major crossroads that linked Scotland with England and shared a common link with its sister inn the Highland Drove as a drover’s stopping place and also as a coaching inn. History – or is it local gossip – recalls the area was the haunt of highwaymen and one came to a sticky end on a gibbet erected on Beacon Edge!