Wincanton pub history index
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Residents at this address
In High Street. The site now occupied by one shop of Mr.G. F. Benjafield.
Kept in or about 1678 by Jasper Stacey. - Inns of the
Parish to 1903 - George Sweetman.
1774 — Andrew Ivy. - Inns of the Parish to 1903 - George Sweetman.
1792— Angel Lane is mentioned in the accounts of the Feoffees. -
Inns of the Parish to 1903 - George Sweetman.
1797 — James Thorn. - Inns of the Parish to 1903 - George Sweetman.
1801 — Joseph Hutchings. Census of that year. - Inns of the
Parish to 1903 - George Sweetman.
1811 - John Way. Census of that year. - Inns of the Parish to
1903 - George Sweetman.
Apparently Way was the last tenant who held a license in this house, for
people to be "drunk on the premises." Mr. Melhuish, after this, kept a wine
and spirit store here. He was followed by Mrs. John Goodfellow, who had a
ladies' school. Some time in the thirties, Mr. George Russell, senr., opened
a drapery shop, and called it " London House." After several other changes
of tenants it still bears this name, - Inns of the Parish to
1903 - George Sweetman.