Leopard Inn, 26 Ambrose Street, Cheltenham
Martin Edwards has done some research on the long-gone pubs in Cheltenham and has compiled a list of licensed premises in the town in 1844. He lists two pubs in Ambrose Street, the Hit & Miss and the Leopard Inn. Presumably these pubs traded concurrently with each other. About fifty years later there is a […]
Mazeppa, 9 & 10 Townsend Place, Cheltenham
A beerhouse called the Mazeppa has been identified by fellow pub enthusiast Martin Edwards in a list of licensed premises in Cheltenham in 1844. The Mazeppa, according to Martin’s list, was located at 9 & 10 Townsend Place, latterly the part of Tewkesbury Road opposite the old Gas Works. The licensed premises later became The […]
Kings Head, Upper Alstone, Cheltenham ?
Martin Edwards has compiled a list of licensed premises in Cheltenham in 1844 in which he includes a beer house called the Kings Head in Upper Alstone. The Kings Arms in Gloucester Road (also described as being in Upper Alstone) is also included in the list. Did a pub called the Kings Head trade concurrently […]
Dunkirk Inn, Dunkirk, Hawkesbury Upton
Located just to the East of Hawkesbury Turn Pike (The junction of France Lane and the A46), and just before the fork in the road (on the A46) to Stroud and Cirencester, this Coaching Inn was ideally located on the main coaching route from Bath to the East and Midlands. Little is known of its […]
Maypole Inn, The Plain, Hawkesbury Upton
The Maypole was probably named after the Maypole that would likely have been on the village green in front of it. Thought to have been in existence in 1630 it would have been in the ideal position, in the center of Upton overlooking the area where the village fair was held, and also the market […]
Horse & Groom, Sandford Road (?), Cheltenham
Martin Edwards, a fellow pub historian, has identified a pub called the Horse & Groom which he has listed in the pubs of Cheltenham existing in 1844. The location is given as Sandford Road, but Martin suggests that the Horse & Groom might have later become the Wheatsheaf Inn in Old Bath Road. The details […]
Jolly Fellow, Rutland Street, Cheltenham
Rutland Street is now part of Brunswick Street (South). It was once a maze of high-density housing which became a notoriously crowded slum area. It was partly demolished in the 1934 slum clearance programme. Rutland Street seems to have been named after a property called Rutland Lodge (1806 reference), which was situated near the north […]
Hop Pole, 46 St Pauls Street North, Cheltenham
Fellow pub historian Martin Edwards has compiled a list of Cheltenham pubs in 1844 – a mere 178 years ago – as I write this in 2022!! There are some real surprises in the list, like the Hop Pole at 46 St Pauls Street North that probably served their last pints of beer over 150 […]
Hop Pole, 4 Sherborne Place, Cheltenham
Fellow pub and local history enthusiast Martin Edwards has compiled a list of pubs in Cheltenham in 1844. There are many pubs in the list that I previously have never heard of, including the Hop Pole at 4 Sherborne Place – a beer house. Martin has indicated that the property still exists – ‘old setback […]
Hit or Miss, 17 Ambrose Street, Cheltenham
The Hit or Miss, a beer house, has been identified by Martin Edwards – a fellow pub historian with a passion for local history – in Ambrose Street in his list of town pubs in 1844. The address is given as 17 Ambrose Street. In 1872 there is a reference to a Broad Gauge Inn […]
