Crown Inn, High Street, Newent GL18 1AY
The Crown Inn had ceased trading by the time the enumerators had compiled the 1891 licensing records of Gloucestershire beer and ale houses. The last reference to the Crown was in 1870. It is reported that in 1725 the Crown Inn had a cockpit – the choice of entertainment in the 18th Century was certainly […]
Cobblers Micro Pub, 7 Church Street, Newent GL18 1PU
Cobblers was the first micro-pub in Gloucestershire and was the inspired idea of Ian Jones who had previous experience of being landlord of the Black Dog. He said, “I came across the micro-pub concept in Kent and liked the idea because it was the kind of pub I would like to drink in. I suppose […]
Stardens Country Club, Tewkesbury Road, Newent
Stardens was a nightclub in a country house in the former Bishop of Herefords summer palace. It was owned by Gerry Delaney and his wife Eileen. Fate was unkind to Gerry. The Stardens Country Club was severely gutted in a fire on June 6th 1980. He promised to rebuild it as a club, but the […]
Red Lion Inn, 2 Broad Street, Newent GL18 1AH
The brick built Red Lion is on the corner of Broad Street and Market Square. It was once known as the ‘Red Lion Commercial and Posting House’. The Red Lion is a rare example of a licensed premises where the annual rateable value decreased in the twelve years of enumeration from 1891 to 1903. The […]
Kings Arms, Ross Road, Newent GL18 1BD
Godsell & Sons, brewers at the Salmon Springs Brewery in Stroud, owned the Kings Arms as early as 1891. The logistics of getting the beer from Stroud to Newent could not have been straightforward with horse pulled brewery drays. Presumably the journey was done in two days, first to Gloucester and then the following day […]
Bull Inn, Church Street, Newent GL18 1PU
The Bull Inn, on the corner of Church Street and Bury Bar Lane, had opened by 1702. A Friendly Society met at the Bull in 1819. Towards the end of the reign of Queen Victoria a pub crawl around Newent would have offered the chance to drink from at least five breweries. Wickwar Ales at […]
Black Dog Inn, 47 Church Road, Newent
The 17th Century Black Dog was once a farmhouse but it has been pub for well over 100 years. Gloucester Journal – February 2nd 1884: A petition in bankruptcy has been filed in the Gloucester County court by William Wintle, of the Black Dog Inn, Newent, upon which a receiving order has been made. The […]
Anchor Inn, Station Road, Newent GL18 1BB
The Hereford & Gloucester canal had reached Newent in 1795, but was not completed as a through route to Hereford by 1845 – fifty years later. The canal had reached Ledbury in 1798 but the economies of constructing the canal, especially through the Oxenhall tunnel, was financially disastrous and the anticipated traffic on the canal […]
Travellers Rest / Malswick Arms, Gloucester Road, Malswick nr. Newent GL18 1HE
The licensing books for Gloucestershire in 1891 and 1903 have fascinating information on the bygone breweries that once owned the Travellers Rest. The owners in 1891 are documented as the Worcester Brewery Company. Twelve years later in 1903 the owners are listed as the Dursley Brewery Company, presumably that refers to the business of Thomas […]
Kilcot Inn, Ross Road, Kilcot, nr. Newent GL18 1NA
The Kilcot Inn, a mile to the west of Newent, is on the B4221 road close to the county border with Herefordshire. The inn was built by Thomas Davis in the 1690’s but records show that there has been a dwelling on the site since the 1530’s. Arnold, Perrett & Co. Ltd. of Wickwar owned […]
