Wimborne inns past and present
Roger Guttridge goes on a pub crawl of historic town centre hostelries
Published in July ’21
The Coach and Horses was not a coaching inn, despite its name
GIVE or take a year, 2020 marked the 200th anniversary of the opening of Wimborne’s Crown Hotel, one of several coaching inns that once clustered around the town centre. It had its own brewery and stabling for 30 horses. Standing at the corner of the Square and East Borough, the Crown hosted meetings of Freemasons and the Dean’s Court Manorial Court, and by 1890 was …
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