Fostons Ash Inn, Fostons Ash, The Camp, nr Birdlip GL6 7ES
https://www.fostonsash.co.uk The Fostons Ash Inn, named after a former turnpike keeper, is an isolated country pub on the Birdlip to Stroud road (B4070) near the junction with the roads to Camp and Miserden. It is just in the parish of Cranham. Camp village is about one mile to the south. The Grade II listed Fostons […]
Plough Inn, Callowell, nr Salmon Springs, Stroud
The 17th century cottage stood just to the north of Callowell Farm and housed the Plough Inn until at least 1882. The Plough Inn must have been one of the nearest pubs to Godsell’s Brewery in Salmon Springs. However, there is no mention of the pub in the 1891 and 1903 books of licensed premises […]
White Horse Inn / DB’s, Westward Road, Cainscross nr Stroud GL5 4LG
An advertisement of 30th June 1854 in the Stroud Press reads: ‘White Horse. Commercial Inn, Cainscross. R. Darke. Neat Fly, Phaeton and Saddle Horses for Hire. Choicest Wines and Spirits. The house warming dinner on Monday 3rd July at 4 o’clock. Tickets 2/6 each. R. Darke continues to carry on the trade of butcher’. In […]
William Samuel Robbins & Son – Cider Licence (off sales), Foxmoor Lane, Ebley nr Stroud.
The cider establishment only had a six day licence, presumably closed on Sundays. The family business was founded by William Samuel as W.S. Robbins & Son and was finally wound up in the mid-1960’s. The factory was demolished and the neighbouring orchards were converted to housing estates. (information courtesy Simon Hale, whose great-great-grandfather was W […]
Mrs Haden’s Off-licence (Godsell’s), Cainscross, nr Stroud
The premises was an off-licence selling Godsell’s beer, but its whereabouts is not known at present. There is no mention of the property in the 1891 licensing book. Licensing Details: Owner in 1903: Mrs Haden (leased Godsell & Sons, Salmon Springs Brewery, Stroud) Rateable value in 1903: £11.0s.0d. Type of licence in 1903: Beerhouse (off […]
Alfred Cratchley’s off-licence (Godsells Brewery), Cainscross, nr Stroud
The premises was an off-licence owned by Godsell’s brewery. Licensing Details: Owner in 1891: Godsell & Sons, Salmon Springs Brewery,Stroud Rateable value in 1891: £10.0s.0d. Type of licence in 1891: Beerhouse (off sales only) Owner in 1903: Godsell & Sons, Salmon Springs Brewery,Stroud Rateable value in 1903: £10.0s.0d. Type of licence in 1903: Beerhouse (off […]
Spring Inn, Paganhill Lane, Cainscross, nr Stroud GL5 4JN
The Spring Inn was the nearest public house to Carpenter’s Cainscross Brewery but sold beer from the rival Stroud Brewery Company. The Spring Inn was valued at £600 in 1920. The property is now residential and called Spring House. It is not yet known when the Spring Inn pulled its last pints, but I have […]
Clothiers Arms, Cainscross, nr Stroud
The Clothiers Arms took its name from the woollen cloth mills of the area. There are records of a cloth mill at Ebley as early as medieval times. The mills were located on the River Frome, providing power to turn the waterwheels required to operate the mill machinery. The clear waters of the River Frome […]
Woolpack Inn, Rodborough Lane, Butterow GL5 2LQ
The Woolpack Inn, a stone built 18th century building just off Butterow Hill, is now a private house called Woolpack Cottage in close proximity to the old Lamb Inn. Whitbread Flowers reviewed the future of the Woolpack in October 1974 when the licensee, Mrs Peggy Stewart, left at short notice. Her husband William had died […]
Princess Royal, Butterow, Rodborough GL5 3UA
The annual rateable value of the Princess Royal was £11.0s.0d. in 1891 and 1903, closing at 10 p.m. The pub was only fifty yards or so away from the Prince Albert at Rodborough. John Rogers contacted me in January 2008 and told me that he could remember drinking at the Princess Royal: “It was just […]
