Royal Exchange, Gloucester Road, Hartpury GL19 3BW

Gloucester Journal: Saturday June 30^th 1883: County Police – William Tuffley, alias Smith, pleaded guilty to a charge of having assaulted PC John Humphrey. At Hartpury. He also admitted being drunk, quarrelsome and disorderly on licensed premises viz the Royal Exchange at Hartpury on the same occasion. Defendant was sent to prison for a month for assaulting the police.

The Royal Exchange is located on the A417 in Hartpury village. The pub is an attractive brick-built small building with one bar. The pub takes its name from local Civil War associations. It was on the site of the pub that prisoners from the Royalist and Roundhead sides were exchanged. The Royal Exchange was once a tied house of Hatton’s Northgate Brewery, Gloucester. A.V. Hatton Northgate Brewery was subsequently acquired by Ind Coope & Co. of Burton on Trent. Ind Coope beers were sold at the Royal Exchange until a few years ago.