Egypt Mill, Station Road, Nailsworth GL6 0AE
Citizen March 8th 1985: Set For A Facelift – Historic Egypt Mills at Nailsworth is all set for a facelift thanks to licensees Phillipa and Steve Webb. The 300 years old mill, which still has its water wheel and stone corn milling wheels, is to be transformed into a pub and restaurant. Mrs Webb whose […]
Crown Hotel, Market Street / The Cross, Nailsworth
In the 1885 Kelly’s Directory it listed as the Crown Commercial and Agricultural Hotel. William Seabourne was a longstanding licensee. He kept the Crown for at least 50 years without one single complaint. It closed down in the mid 1980’s but was refurbished in 1996 and reopened as the Cross Inn. The old Crown Hotel […]
Cross Inn, Market Street, Nailsworth
The Cross Inn opened in the winter of 1996/1997 in the building that had once been the Crown Hotel. The Crown had long since closed and the premises had been empty since 1987. The refurbished Cross Inn was the brainchild of Oisin Hawes (see Village Inn) and Robert McGrath. The Cross Inn was essentially a […]
Clothiers Arms, Market Street, Nailsworth
The Clothiers Arms dates from at least 1820. Kate Spurrier emailed me in November 2002 and told me that her Great Grandfather, Charles Henry Baker (1886-1963), was once the landlord of the Clothiers Arms although Kate did not know when he held the licence. The pub sign hung from a large ornamental ironwork bracket, which […]
Britannia Inn, Cossack Square, Nailsworth GL6 0DG
The Britannia Inn is an early 18th century Cotswold stone inn. The New Stroud Directory published in 1909 included the following advertisement: ‘Britannia Inn, Nailsworth. H.H. Smith, begs to inform his old customers and the public generally that a full license has now been granted to the above inn, and that he is now in […]
Royal Oak, Market Place, Newent
First mentioned in 1719, the Royal Oak was trading in Newent’s Market Place in 1891 when it was tied to the Forest Brewery in Mitcheldean. The pub was fully licensed and had an annual rateable value of £16.0s.0d. There is no mention of the Royal Oak twelve years later in 1903 suggesting that it had […]
Plough Inn, Culver Street, Newent GL18 1DB
Plough Inn, Great Boulsdon GL18 1JJ It is likely that the license of the Plough Inn was transferred from an inn near the present-day National Birds of Prey Centre just outside Newent to a property nearer the town centre in Culver Street. An old map clearly shows the Plough Inn at Great Boulsdon on the […]
New Inn, High Street, Newent GL18 1AS
The New Inn was a superb black and white panelled timbered ancient building in Newent High Street. It is now a private house called Linkwood Cottage. James Cook (senior) owned the New Inn in 1891 and 1903 when it was free from brewery tie and had an annual rateable value of £14.0s.0d. James Cook was […]
Nags Head, 12 Broad Street, Newent GL18 1AH
Thomas Bailey was the owner of the Nags Head in 1891 and he leased the pub, licensed as a beer house, to Arnold, Perrett & Co’s Wickwar Brewery. The annual rateable value was then £12.0s.0d. In 1903 Thomas Bailey had sold the pub to Ind Coope & Co., of Burton on Trent. The rateable value […]
George Hotel, 21-23 Church Street, Newent GL18 1PU
The George Hotel was originally a coaching house on the post road to South Wales. In 1822/23 the coaches to Gloucester and Hereford left from the George and in 1876 the Ledbury-Gloucester mail coach called at the George. In the same year (1876) the Inland Revenue office was located at the George Inn. In the […]
