Founded in 2014 by Marcus Black and Mike Carthy, who named their gin after William Slingsby, a 16th-century English adventurer who was said to be the one to discover that Harrogate’s Tewit Well water had supposed valuable properties. The distillery uses the town of Harrogate as its inspiration. Expressions, such as the award-winning Slingsby London Dry Gin, were unsurprisingly made utilising this now-famous water source, as well as a selection of botanicals from the area (with additional botanicals sourced from the world over.)