Cross Hands, Stamages Lane, Painswick GL6 6XA
The Cross Hands was located at the foot of Stamages Lane to the south of Painswick, where Wick Street crosses the Painswick Stream. In the 19th century there was a small weaving community in the area. The Cross Hands retains its name as a private residence. The Cross Hands became a Stroud Brewery pub in […]
Chequers Inn, Cheltenham Road, Painswick
I have only one reference to the Chequers Inn in 1876. Landlord: 1876 Henry Ely
Bunch of Grapes, Cheltenham Road, Painswick GL6 6XN
The Bunch of Grapes is not listed in the 1903 book of Gloucestershire licensed premises, which suggests that it had closed by the turn of the twentieth century. However in the mid 1970’s Jon Bartholomew & Son published an ‘Inns of the Cotswolds’ map, which was compiled by K.C. Jordan. Painswick was credited with three […]
Bull Inn, Wick Street, Painswick GL6 7QR
Wick Street is an old road that runs parallel with the A46 Stroud road on the east side of the Painswick Valley. In fact it was the original road leading from Stroud to Painswick. In 1726 the road was turnpiked. In 1737 a ‘flying waggon’ left the Bull Inn every Monday at 12 o’clock to […]
Bell Inn, Friday Street, Painswick GL6 6QJ
The Bell Inn once brewed its own beer. Thomas Skinner & Son are recorded as brewers at the Bell Inn in 1863 and 1885. Smith & Sons of the Brimscombe Brewery had acquired the Bell Inn by 1891. Gloucester Journal, October 1887: Whereas on the evening of the 24th of September last, was left at […]
Harrow, Chipping Campden
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Huxleys, Chipping Campden
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Swan Inn, High Street, Chipping Campden
Donnington Brewery once had two pubs in Chipping Campden, the Kings Arms and the Swan Inn. It is regrettable that this well loved Cotswold brewery no longer supplies its beer to Chipping Campden pubs. A Donnington tied house in one of the prettiest towns in England would be most welcome! From ‘The Inns and Alehouses […]
Volunteer Inn, Lower High Street, Chipping Campden GL55 6DY
The Volunteer has been a pub since at least 1703, then thought to have been named the New Inn. The present name was given in the mid 19th century when the pub was used as the signing on place for the Crimean War and later the Boer War. The Volunteer was Gloucestershire CAMRA pub of […]
Rose & Crown, Lower High Street, Chipping Campden GL55 6DY
The building that was once the Rose & Crown is a typical Cotswold stone Chipping Campden house with two small gables, but nothing visible to suggest that it was once a licensed premises. From ‘The Inns and Alehouses of Chipping Campden and Broad Campden’ (Chipping Campden Historical Society) Reproduced with permission. The Rose & Crown […]
