Prince of Wales, High Street, Northleach

The Prince of Wales closed in the late 1950’s and is now a private house. (Orchard House) Licensing Details: Owner in 1891: Tayler’s Cotswold Brewery, Northleach Rateable value in 1891: £13.0s.0d. Type of licence in 1891: Alehouse Owner in 1903: Tayler’s Cotswold Brewery, Northleach Rateable value in 1903: £14.15s.0d. Type of licence in 1903: Alehouse […]

Kings Head, The Peep, Northleach

The Kings Head was a two storey Cotswold stone building in a terraced row just behind the Market Square. Gloucestershire Chronicle. April 16th 1870 – William Day, landlord of the Kings Head public house, was summonsed for keeping his house open for the sale of beer at a quarter to eleven on the night of […]

Horse & Groom Inn, West End, Northleach

The Horse and Groom was Tayler’s Cotswold Brewery’s tap house situated close to the brewery gates in the West End. The Horse and Groom was at one time a monks rest-house at a midway point between Oxford and Gloucester. The booklet, ‘Gloucestershire Inns’, published in 1924, gave details that ‘It contains an old chapel, known […]

Guggle Inn, West End, Northleach

The small 17th century house at the corner of Guggle Lane directly opposite the Fire Station in West End was believed to have been a pub. When the property was sold in 2000 mention was made of a beer chute from the cellar to the outside street.

Crown Inn, The Square, Northleach

The Crown closed well over a hundred years ago. The building has been occupied by W.J. Castle’s Butchers shop for many generations. This page will eventually be updated with additional information.

Woolpack Inn, High Street, Stonehouse

The town of Stonehouse must have been an excellent place for drinking beer in late Victorian times. At the Woolpack Inn Nailsworth Brewery Ales could be sampled but a pub crawl around the town would have included drinking Godsell’s & Son from Salmon Springs, Stroud Brewery Ales, ‘Smiths’ Brimscombe Ales and Elvy’s Dursley Ales. In contrast, […]

Stonehouse Court Hotel, Bristol Road, Stonehouse

https://www.stonehousecourt.co.uk Stonehouse Court is a 17th century Cotswold country manor house and hotel set in six acres of grounds. See the Stonehouse Court Hotel website for a comprehensive history. This page will be updated with additional information.

Spa Inn, Oldens Lane, Stonehouse

The Spa Inn was once an isolated ‘country’ pub in Oldends Lane half a mile to the east of Stonehouse, selling beer from Smith’s Brimscombe Brewery. In 1903 the pub called ‘last orders’ at 10 pm – there must have been a mass migration to the pubs in the town that stayed open an hour […]

Ship Inn, The Wharf, off Bristol Road, Stonehouse

The original frontage of the Ship Inn faced the Stroudwater navigation and the inn was a popular haunt of bargees and canal users. When the canal became obsolete passing trade came from motorists using the A419 and the alignment of the pub was changed in successive enlargements. The pub closed in February 1997 to make […]