Waggon & Horses, Kemerton, nr Tewkesbury

The Waggon and Horses was north of the Roman Church. No other details at present. Licensing Details: Owner in 1891: Cheltenham Original Brewery Rateable value in 1891: Not given Type of licence in 1891: Beerhouse Owner in 1903: Cheltenham Original Brewery Rateable value in 1903:  £24.0s.0d. Type of licence in 1903: Beerhouse Closing time in […]

Gardeners Arms, Kemerton GL20 7HY

There is a Gardeners Cottage in Kemerton, which was probably the Gardeners Arms. No other details at present. Licensing Details: Owner in 1891: James Martin (free from brewery tie) Rateable value in 1891: Not given Type of licence in 1891: Beerhouse Owner in 1903: Cheltenham Original Brewery Rateable value in 1903: £24.0s.0d. Type of licence […]

Crown Inn, High Street, Kemerton GL20 7HP

Kemerton is just over the county boundary in Worcestershire but has a Gloucestershire postal code. However, the village is included in the 1891 and 1903 licensing books of Gloucestershire. The Crown was still a Flowers & Sons pub in 1961. It is still trading. Map Reference: SO 947273 Licensing Details: Owner in 1891: Flowers & […]

New Inn / Riverside Inn, Haw Bridge, nr Tirley GL19 4HJ

The New Inn is a whitewashed pub on the other side of the B4213 to the Haw Bridge Inn. In December 2000 both the Haw Bridge and the New Inn were severely affected by flooding. It was devastated in the July 2007 floods – disaster struck just four days after it had reopened following a […]

Haw Bridge Inn, Haw Bridge, nr Tirley GL19 4HJ

The Haw Bridge Inn is on the banks of the River Severn on the south-western side of Haw Bridge. The Tippler, the Gloucestershire branch of CAMRA newsletter, described the interior of the Haw Bridge Inn in October 1980 when it was selling excellently kept Whitbread PA: ‘As you enter the pub, the lounge bar is […]

Watersmeet, Gloucester Road, Hartpury GL19 3BT

The Watersmeet is about a quarter of a mile to the north of Hartpury on the A417 Gloucester to Ledbury Road. Mike Payne has done some research on the buildings in the village and discovered that there was a building on this site in the 1903 and 1923 Ordnance Survey maps although not marked as […]

Royal Exchange, Gloucester Road, Hartpury GL19 3BW

Gloucester Journal: Saturday June 30th 1883: County Police – William Tuffley, alias Smith, pleaded guilty to a charge of having assaulted PC John Humphrey. At Hartpury. He also admitted being drunk, quarrelsome and disorderly on licensed premises viz the Royal Exchange at Hartpury on the same occasion. Defendant was sent to prison for a month […]

Rising Sun, Hiams Lane, Hartpury GL19 3DQ

The Rising Sun was tucked away up a quiet country lane about a mile to the south of Hartpury. It is actually located within the parish of Maisemore. The pub was also known as the ‘Salt Box’. Landlord Tom Madden believed that this refers to a time when a building on the site was used […]

Coopers Arms, Gloucester Road, Hartpury GL19 3BT

There is only one reference to the Coopers Arms in 1867. It is not listed in the 1891 book of licensed pubs in Gloucestershire. Mike Payne has done some research on the buildings in the village and has discovered that the Coopers Arms beer house and outbuildings were located at parcel 820 on a tithe […]

Canning Arms, Gloucester Road, Hartpury GL19 3BT

In the mortgage taken out on the Hartpury Estate in 1908 the tenants of the Canning Arms were the Royal Well Brewery Co Ltd. of West Malvern. As far as I know this was the only Gloucestershire pub that sold beers from the Royal Well Brewery. There were 26 tied houses in their estate, which […]