Nags Head, Selsley GL5 5JU
The Nags Head is listed in the parish of Kings Stanley in the 1891 and 1903 licensing books. It was situated opposite the Bell Inn and the village school in School Square. In 1928 the Nags Head was a leasehold property of the Stroud Brewery Company. The property is now residential. Licensing Details: Rateable Value […]
Bell Inn, Bell Lane, Selsley
The Bell Inn is a Grade II listed building in the centre of the village. In 2001 petty bureaucracy dictated that a string of coloured light bulbs illuminating the pub should be turned off. The lights had been a feature of the Bell Inn for at least 20 years. When landlord Mark Priestley replaced the […]
Ryeford Hotel / Ryeford Arms, 12 Ebley Road, Ryeford, nr Stonehouse
Gloucester Journal – April 1888: William Humpheys was summoned for drunkenness at the Ryeford Inn. Fined 5s. and costs at Whitminster Police Court. The Ryeford was a 90 seater carvery. The Ryeford Arms and Carvery may have been the first casualty of the smoking ban. In February 2006 the landlord told the ‘Citizen’: “People will […]
Haywardsfield Inn, ‘Nowhere’, Ryeford, nr Stonehouse GL10 2LQ
Haywardsfield Inn, Nowhere, GL10 2LQ The Haywardsfield Inn was on the main road between Ryeford and Ebley. The location had hardly any population and was known locally as ‘nowhere’. The pub was owned by the Stroud Brewery Company. The brewery renovated the premises in c.1906, replacing rotten window frames and painting signs on the rendered […]
Anchor Inn, Stroudwater Canal, Ryeford, nr Stonehouse GL10 2LA
Ryeford is a hamlet one mile to the east of Stonehouse. The Anchor Inn was located near the Stroudwater canal. The Anchor Inn had a long association with the Lewis / Brunsdon family. In one of Arthur Brunsdon’s many obituaries it says: “he had been the licensee of the Anchor Inn for 41 years.” He […]
Vine Tree Inn, Randwick, nr Stroud GL6 6JA
From the Vine Tree there are panoramic views over Stroud towards Rodborough and Selsley. Cecil Sharp called into the Vine Tree Inn on April 9th 1908. He might have had one or two pints of Stroud Brewery Ales with Henry Bassett, the landlord, and persuaded him to sing. Cecil Sharp recorded Henrys rendition of the […]
Rising Sun Inn, Randwick nr Stroud
The Rising Sun was located in narrow twisting lanes and was unsuitable for motorists who wished to park their car near the pub – no doubt a significant factor in its demise. The old pub, near the closed Randwick Methodist Chapel, is now a private residence. Map reference: SO 831066 (approx) Licensing Details: Owner in […]
New Inn, Randwick nr Stroud
The New Inn, in the centre of the village, was de-licensed in 1930. William George Hale, the licensee in 1903, was listed as a Cattle Dealer in Gloucester in the 1891 census. Map Reference: SO 827066 (approx) Licensing Details: Owner in 1891: Godsell & Sons, Salmon Springs Brewery, Stroud Rateable value in 1891: £13.0s.0d. Type […]
Adam & Eve, Paradise, nr Painswick GL6 6TN
The booklet ‘Gloucestershire Inns’, published in 1924, gives the following account: ‘When King Charles I was directing the siege of Gloucester he spent a troubled day or two at Painswick, that charming Cotswold town; and chancing one fine morning to look up the valley toward Sheepscombe, he remarked that the scene, one of the most […]
Star Inn, Pitchcombe, nr Painswick
I have only found one reference to the Star Inn in 1856. The property called Windflower House in Pitchcombe (Halfway Patch GL6 6LJ) is believed to have once been both a pub and a bakery. To confuse matters there is a Star Farm at Pitchcombe (GL6 6LN). The location of the Star Inn is therefore […]
