White Lion, Market Square, Stow on the Wold
The White Lion, dating from 1774, was on the east side of the square. Licensing Details: Owner in 1891: Miss R. Smart (free from brewery tie) Rateable value in 1891: £12.15s.0d. Type of licence in 1891: Alehouse Owner in 1903: Miss R. Smart (leased Edward A. Green, Stow Brewery) Rateable value in 1903: £12.15s.0d. Type of […]
White Hart Inn / The Stag at Stow, The Square, Stow on the Wold
The White Hart has recently changed its name to the Stag at Stow. The White Hart was established as an inn in 1698. It was once tied to Hitchman & Co of Chipping Norton before the company was taken over by Hunt Edmunds of Banbury. There is a Hunt Edmunds plaque still in situ. The […]
Unicorn Hotel, Sheep Street, Stow on the Wold
The Unicorn ws a 17th century coaching inn on the north-eastern corner of Sheep Street with the main A429 Fosse Way. Gloucester Journal Saturday March 5th 1870. Accident. On Monday 20th February a young man named Charles Hunt was shaking carpets in the Unicorn bowling alley, where a party were playing quoits. On stooping to […]
Talbot Hotel, Market Square, Stow on the Wold
The Talbot Hotel was once tied to Hitchman’s Brewery of Chipping Norton before being acquired by Hunt Edmunds of Banbury. After a few decades of being tied to Bass Charington it was sold to Wadworth of Devizes in 1985. Gloucestershire Chronicle. February 19th 1870: On the morning of Thursday 10th February at half past six […]
Star Inn, Sheep Street, Stow on the Wold
There is a Star Inn House in Sheep Street.
Royalist Hotel / Porch House, Stow on the Wold
The Royalist has been confirmed by the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest inn in Britain, dating back to AD947. It is a grade II listed building. Evidence suggests that the Royalist began life as part of a Saxon community as far back as AD 514. In AD 949 the Saxon Duke Aethelmar founded […]
Red Lion / Old Stocks Hotel, The Square, Stow on the Wold
The building is now the Old Stocks Hotel. Licensing Details: Owner in 1891: Mr E. T. Rouse (leased Clinch & Co., Eagle Brewery, Witney) Rateable value in 1891: £14.10s.0d. Type of licence in 1891: Alehouse Owner in 1903: Mills & Co. (free from brewery tie) Rateable value in 1903: £20.0s.0d. Type of licence in 1903: […]
Queens Head, The Square, Stow on the Wold
The pub has been owned by the local Donnington Brewery for well over a hundred years. It is one of the few pubs in Gloucestershire that has been selling the same beers for such a long period of time. For a long time the Queens Head held the honour of being the pub in the […]
Kings Arms Hotel, The Square, Stow on the Wold
The Kings Arms Hotel is a 500 year old coaching house which provided lodging for King Charles I on 8th May 1645. The unspoilt building is a dominant feature on the east side of Stow Square near the cross. The Kings Arms had been acquired by Hunt, Edmunds of Banbury by 1891. A wooden board […]
King William Inn, Sheep Street, Stow on the Wold
On the 10th February 1923, compensation was paid to the licence holder of the King William Inn, Stow, and the house was closed. The building is now Colin Brand Antiques next to the rectory and opposite the Post Office. I am interested in the landlord in late Victorian times, Albert Sandles – was he a […]
