Swan Hotel, High Street, Moreton in Marsh GL56 0LL
Moreton in Marsh was a beer drinkers paradise in Victorian England. Beers from at least eight local breweries could be sampled on pub crawl around the town in 1891. Donnington Brewery, Dunnell’s of Banbury, Flowers & Sons of Stratford, Hitchman’s of Chipping Norton, Lardner’s of Little Compton, Stow Brewery and Turner’s Caudlewell Brewery of Shipston on […]
Rising Sun, High Street, Moreton in Marsh GL56 0AD
The Rising Sun was on the west side of High Street, it is now a private residence called the Limes. The Rising Sun had closed down by the time of the 1891 petty sessional divisional records Landlord: 1839-1863 Robert Walker
Wellington Inn, London Road, Moreton in Marsh GL56 0HN
The Wellington Inn, outside town on the London Road, was tied to the Hook Norton Brewery for at least two decades (date of acquisition not known). For many years it was one of only two Hook Norton pubs in Gloucestershire, the other being the Churchill Inn at Paxford. The Wellington Inn has been converted to residential […]
Unicorn Inn / Redesdale Arms Hotel, High Street, Moreton in Marsh
For over 200 years the Redesdale Arms Hotel was known as the Unicorn. It was recorded as early as 1661 and by 1830 had become an important coaching inn. The name was changed in 1886 in memory of the late John Thomas Freeman-Mitford, Earl Redesdale of Batsford Park. In March 1985 the Redesdale Arms Hotel […]
Railway Hotel, New Street, Moreton in Marsh
The Railway Hotel was built for the passengers using the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton railway station which was opened in Moreton in 1853. It was once a tied house of Lardner’s Compton Brewery. When it closed in 1967 the ‘Evesham Journal’ reported that it: ‘was one of those pubs that time seemed to have passed […]
Queens Head, Moreton in Marsh
Licensing Details: Owner in 1891: Frederick Horne (free from brewery tie) Rateable value in 1891: £28.0s.0d, Type of licence in 1891: Alehouse Owner in 1903: Arthur Frederick Horne, John Nicholson Horne, Edgar Charles Horne and Harold -Ewart Horne. (free from brewery tie) Rateable value in 1903: £44.16s.8d. Type of licence in 1903: Alehouse (Six day […]
Golden Gallon, High Street, Moreton in Marsh
The Golden Gallon was in the northern end of the High Street near the Foresters Arms. There is no reference to the Golden Gallon in the 1903 petty sessional divisional records. It closed c.1897. It is now a private residence immediately south of Hassan’s Balti restaurant. Licensing Details: Owner in 1891: John Mace Phillips (leased […]
Foresters Arms, High Street, Moreton in Marsh GL56 0AD
The Foresters Arms closed in 1921. It had a very basic bar with no counter; the beer was drawn from a barrel in an adjacent room. The Foresters Arms is recorded as once selling beer from the local Charles Gillett’s Moreton Brewery. The property is now residential and called The Old Foresters Licensing Details: Owner […]
Crown Inn, The Curfew, Oxford Street, Moreton in Marsh GL56 0LE
The Crown Inn, once a Hitchman’s of Chipping Norton tied house, was located immediately to the right of the Curfew Tower in the centre of Moreton on the Fosse Way (A429) and Oxford Street (A44) junction. The Crown Inn closed in 1921. Albert Edmunds, the last licensee, kept a large white parrot in the bar which […]
Black Horse, Moreton in the Marsh
There is a reference in the 1860 Kelly’s Gloucester Directory to the Black Horse in Moreton in Marsh. Presumably this is an error and the entry refers to the Black Bear.
