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A Stroud Valleys Ghost Pub Pilgrimage

Updated: Jun 23, 2020

A Ghost Pub Pilgrimage through Stroud and the Five Valleys

An A-Z Gazetteer

With thanks to Geoff Sandles and his invaluable and necessary

Stroud Valley Pubs Through Time

Amberley Publishing

And Pubs of the Old Stroud Brewery,

By Wilfred Merrett

Let these pub names and addresses

Speak for themselves,

No description or detail

(Apart from one old public house),

But let’s find them and toast them with imaginary pints

On a series of Ghost Pub Pilgrimages on foot or on bicycle,

And if you know of any others,

Please send them in …

A

Adam & Eve, Paradise, (formerly The Plough Inn)

The Anchor Inn, Ryeford Wharf, Stroudwater Canal

Apple Tree Inn, Wotton-under-Edge

B

Bedford Arms, the Cross, Stroud

The Bell, Painswick (bombed 1941)

The Bell, Walbridge, Stroud

Bell and Castle, The Cross, Horsley

Bell & Castle Inn, Dursley

Bell Inn, Arlingham

Bell Inn, Berkeley Heath

Bell Inn, Chalford

(used for Chartist meetings in the 1830s)

Bell Inn, Ebley Wharf, Stroudwater Canal

Bell Inn, Bell Street, Painswick

Boot Inn, Kingscourt

The Box Inn, Box

Brewers Arms, Gloucester Road, Stonehouse

Bridge Inn, Dudbridge

Britannia, Kings Stanley

Britannia, Eastington

Bunch of Grapes, Cheltenham Road, Painswick

Butchers Arms, Acre Street, Stroud

C

Canal Tavern, Bowbridge

Clothiers Arms, Nailsworth

Company’s Arms, Chalford

Corn Exchange, the Cross, Stroud

Corn Hall Hotel, the Shambles, Stroud

Cross Hands, Stammages Lane, Painswick

Cross Hands Inn, nr the Midland Railway station, Stonehouse

Crown and Anchor, High Street, Stonehouse

Crown Inn, Inchbrook

Crown Inn, The Cross, Nailsworth

The Crown, the Cross, Stroud

The Crown, Waterlane

The Cyprus Inn, Bath Road, Lightpill

D

Darrell Arms, Upper Framilode

Drover’s Arms, Cambridge

Duke of York, Queen’s Square, Chalford Hill

E

Eagle Inn, Pitchcombe (now Eagle Cottage)

F

Fleece Inn, Lightpill

Fleece Inn, Bisley Street, Painswick

Forester’s Arms, Thrupp

Fountain, Thrupp

G

Gardeners Rest, Harper Road, Cashes Green

George Hotel, Nailsworth

George Inn, Berkeley

George Inn, Bisley

Golden Cross Inn, Stroud

Golden Heart, junction of Oxfam and the betting shop in Stroud

In the 19th century, it had a skittle alley,

And the famous Chartist, Henry Vicent,

Spoke near there before the Selsley Hill mass meeting in 1839.

Golden Heart, Tibbiwell Street, Painswick

H

Half Moon, Stroud

Halfway House, Box,

Haywardfields Inn, Stonehouse

Hope Inn, Stroud

Horse and Groom, Upper Leazes, Stroud

I

J

Jovial Forester, Star Hill, Forest Green

(there was a jug house off-licence on Spillman’s Pitch)

Junction Inn, Framilode

K

Kings Arms, Bourne, Brimscombe

Kings Arms Inn, Walbridge

Kings Head Inn, Forwood

Kings Head, the Cross, Stroud

Kite’s Nest, Bath Road, Lightpill

L

The Lamb, Butterrow, Rodborough

Lamb Inn, Leonard Stanley

The Lamb, the Cross, Stroud

Leopard Inn, Parliament Street, Stroud

M

Malakoff, Ebley

Malakoff, Thrupp

Market Tavern, Union Street, Stroud

Middle Yard, Kings Stanley

N

Nag’s Head Inn, Dunkirk

Nag’s Head, Regent Street, Stonehouse

Nelson, Brimscombe

Nelson, Kings Stanley

Nelson Inn, Far Oakridge

New George, Nelson Street, Stroud

New Inn, Bowbridge

New Inn, Kings Stanley

New Inn, Roving Bridge, Newtown (Stroudwater Canal)

New Inn, Selsley Common

New Inn, St Mary’s Street, Painswick

O

Oak Inn, Frampton Mansell

Oddfellows Arms, Summer Street, Stroud

Old Bell, Arlingham

Old Castle, Kings Stanley

Old Crown, Kings Stanley

Orange Tree, the Cross, Stroud

P

Phoenix Inn, Thrupp

Plough Inn, Callowell

Plough Inn, Woodchester

Port Inn, Brimscombe

Post Office Inn, Stroud

Prince of Wales, Slad Road, Stroud

Princess Royal, Butterrow

Q

R

Railway Hotel, Russell Street, Stroud

Railway Inn, Dudbridge

Railway Tavern, Brownshill

Red Lion, Eastcombe

Red Lion, The Green, Kings Stanley

Red Lion, Nailsworth

Red Lion, Painswick

Rising Sun, Randwick

Rising Sun Inn, Shortwood

Rising Sun, Nelson Street, Stroud

The Rock and Fountain, Star Hill, Forest Green

Royal Arms, Bath Road, Stonehouse

Royal Oak, Stonehouse

Ryeford Arms, Ebley Road, Ryeford

S

Salutation Inn, Minchinhampton

Saul Off-licence

Ship and Anchor, Walbridge

Ship Inn, Bristol Road, Stonehouse

Spa Inn, Oldends Lane, Stonehouse

Spread Eagle, Bisley Old Road, Stroud

Spring Inn, Cainscross

The Star  Star Hill, Forest Green

Star, Kings Stanley

Star Inn, Gloucester Street, Painswick

Star, Slad

Star in Tower Hill, Parliament Street, Stroud

Sundial Inn, London Road, Stroud

Swan Inn, Union Street, Stroud

T

Target Inn, Bisley Road, Stroud

Trumpet Inn, Minchinhampton

U

The Upper Star, Star Hill, Forest Green

V

Victoria Hotel, Brimscombe

(formerly King & Castle)

Victoria Inn, Foundry Lock, Upper Dudbridge, Stroudwater Canal

W

Waggon & Horses, London Road, Thrupp

Weavers Arms, Middleyard, Kings Stanley

Wellington Arms, Nelson Street, Stroud

White Hart, Minchinhampton

White Hart Inn, Downend, Horsley

White Horse, Westward Road, Cainscross

White Horse, Frampton Mansell

White Horse, Vicarage Street, Painswick

Woodcutters Arms, Whiteshill

Woolpack, Butterrow, Rodborough

X

Y

Ye Old Painswick Inn, Gloucester Street, Stroud

Z



Memories from ‘A Local’:

‘Childhood memories come back of Smith’s Crisps & drinks of lemon & dash* or ginger beer on summer evenings outside local pubs we walked to with our parents during WW2: the Golden Cross/Princess Royal/Railway Inn at Dudbridgewhere we sat outside in the gardens or by the bowling green at The Prince Albert!

After 1947 when Dad acquired a 1927 Austin, we travelled farther afield - to  The Adam & Eve, at Paradise - safe to park on the main road in those days – to others such as The White Horse, Fr. Mansell, The Black Horse, Nailsworth, The New Inn on Selsley common, The Royal William, Cranham ,etc. 

Sometimes Mother and children stayed in car and Dad brought drinks & crisps out to us.      (*a dash of beer)

My maternal Granny lived in Atcombe Rd. South Woodchester and when we visited her in the 1940s my mother usually treated her to a pint of Albright* which an older cousin and I fetched in a jug from the Off Licence side of The Yew Tree pub next door.’

(*a light pale ale)




Site of the Adam & Eve, Paradise



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