Cross Keys Inn, Kempley
The Cross Keys at Kempley had closed by the end of the 19th century. Details of the pub are scarce, but the Cross Keys is mentioned in 1871 and twenty years later the licensed premises is described as a beer house with an annual rateable value of £12.0s.0d. Landowner Earl Beauchamp of the Dymock estate […]
New Inn / Roadmaker Inn, Forty’s Pitch, Gorsley HR9 7SW
The Roadmaker Inn is located on the B4221 just to the east of Junction 3 of the M50. The Gloucestershire / Herefordshire county border runs through Gorsley and the Roadmaker Inn is on the Herefordshire side, just a few yards outside the Gloucestershire boundary. There are no records of the premises in either the 1891 […]
Plough Inn, Dymock GL18 2AQ
See the Beauchamp Arms
Royal Oak, Greenway, nr. Dymock
Greenway is a small hamlet on Ledbury B4216 road, one mile north of Dymock. The Royal Oak was put up for auction in May 1870 and it is not mentioned in 1891. More research is required to pinpoint the precise location of the Royal Oak. It is likely that it was on the crossroads […]
George Inn, Dymock GL18 2AJ
The 1851 census shows that the Cummins family were resident at the George Inn in Dymock. The licence of the George Inn was held by Hannah Cummins, aged 48. Her husband, James Cummins – aged 50, is listed as a farmer of 170 acres. They had a son, aged 12, who was also named James. […]
Crown Inn, Dymock GL18 2AJ
In 1891 and 1903 the Crown Inn was listed as a beer house and the owner was Mrs Deane. In the twelve years from 1891 to 1903 the annual rateable value more than doubled from £12.0s.0d. to £27.0s.0d. A possible reason for the increase is that Ind Coope Brewery of Burton on Trent had taken […]
Beauchamp Arms, Dymock GL18 2AQ
In 1856 a coach service is known to have left the ‘Plough Inn at Dymock’ for the Gloucester and Ledbury town markets, and there was a daily mail coach calling at the inn running between the two towns. Samuel Averill is listed at the Plough in 1851 when he was aged 60 and his occupation […]
Anchor Inn, Leominster Road, Dymock GL18 2AN
The Anchor Inn was located at Shakesfield, just to the north of Dymock, on the Hereford and Gloucester canal where it crossed the Leominster road. The canal opened in 1798 following the completion of the 2192 yard Oxenhall tunnel and emerged in a deep cutting near Boyce Court and its northwards course passed immediately west […]
Yew Tree Inn, Cliffords Mesne GL18 1JS
The Yew Tree Inn is located just to the north of May Hill, a well-known Gloucestershire topological landmark. The county boundary with Herefordshire almost intercepts the pub. Today the Yew Tree has a Gloucestershire address but when the 1891 and 1903 licensing books were being compiled Cliffords Mesne was in Herefordshire – the boundaries have […]
Horse Shoe Inn, Brooms Green, Dymock GL18 2DP
Brooms Green is an isolated hamlet about two miles to the northeast of Dymock. It is in the far northwest of the county, very near the Herefordshire border. Early records of the Horse Shoe Inn suggest that it was a cider pub. This is not surprising as nearby Dymock was once regarded as being the […]
