Royal Oak, The Pludds, Brierley (Forest of Dean)
In the 1891 licensing book the premises is listed without having a name, but in 1903 it was referred to as the Royal Oak . The Wickwar Brewery (Arnold, Perrett & Co. Ltd.) were the owners. The Royal Oak had the status of a beer house but sales Wickwar Gold Medal Ales were limited to […]
Swan Inn, Phipps Bottom, Pillowell
The Swan Inn was situated at Phipps Bottom on the hairpin bend that divides Pillowell from Yorkley. The Rudge Brook flows under the road at this point. The property was a private house built c1698, which first became licensed in 1874. In 1889 the Swan was bought by Arnold Perrett & Co. Ltd. The annual […]
Royal Forester Inn, Pillowell
The first reference to the Royal Forester at Pillowell dates from 1843. William Worgan was the owner and occupier of the Royal Forester in 1891 when it was a free house. The annual rateable value was £12.0s.0d. and it was licensed as a beer house. By 1903 the Royal Forester was tied to Francis Wintle’s […]
Travellers Rest / Railway Inn, Fancy Hill, Parkend
Passenger services on the Severn & Wye Railway from Lydney Junction to Drybrook Road commenced on 23rd September 1875. The branch line crossed the unclassified road leading to Moseley Green on a level crossing and the Railway Inn was situated a few yards to the west. At some time in its history the inn was […]
New Inn / The Woodman, Parkend
Parkend would have made an excellent venue for a pub crawl in late Victorian England as a variety of breweries supplied the village pubs amongst the exciting backdrop of industrial activity. In 1891 it would have been possible to drink Blakeney Forest of Dean Brewery Ales, Cirencester Brewery Beers, Redbrook Brewery Ales and – at […]
Fountain Inn, Fountain Way, Parkend
The 1891 licensing book records Elizabeth Burgham as the owner of the Fountain Inn. In other contemporary accounts she is referred to as Eliza Burgham. She was the owner of the Redbrook Brewery, and when she passed away in 1902 the brewery was bequeathed to her son Oliver. Yet in 1903 the Fountain Inn is […]
British Lion, Parkend
Parkend was once a hive of industrial activity with a large tin plate works, coke yards, cinder tips and railways and tramways threading their way through the complexes. The British Lion Inn was on the Ivy Moor Head Branch Tramway leading onto the Parkend Coal Company’s Tramway. Over time the once industrial landscape of Parkend […]
Loyal Forester, Oldcroft, nr. Yorkley
Oldcroft is a small village situated between Yorkley and Viney Hill, north-east of Lydney. In 1861 the Royal Forester was owned and run by the Kear family. William Kear, who is also described as an innkeeper and haulier in 1861, was helped by his wife Eliza who was described as ‘attending on the inn.’ By […]
Oakle Street Hotel / The Silent Whistle, Oakle Street, nr. Churcham
Oakle Street is a small scattered settlement on the unclassified road leading from the A48 near Minsterworth northwards towards to the A40 near Churcham. The lane is intersected about half-way along by the Gloucester to Chepstow section of the railway line to South Wales. The Great Western Railway constructed a station at Oakle Street which […]
Drybrook Inn, Walford, nr. Ross on Wye, Herefordshire.
I received a message from Derek Bond relating to a pub called the Drybrook Inn. Derek’s 3rd Great Grandfather, George Taylor, was landlord of the Drybrook Inn between about 1851 census and 1868, when the licence passed to John Hatton. I am reproducing Derek’s notes on the Drybrook Inn below, information he gleamed from British […]
