Pub dating, info n' pics - X Marks the Scot

Derek · #1 02-02-2009, 03:29 AM

Heres a little info on the Horse & Jockey where we went Sat

Horse & Jockey is a 15th century thatched pub, in the hamlet of Llanvihangel, offering traditional and modern fayre. In the 17th century the pub was used as a vicarage and is also known locally as the jockey or the jockey pitch. The pub is is also haunted by a ghost fondly known as Martha. We are situated only 300 yards from the Brecknock & Abergavenny canal and bridge 55.
Here are three others that I will revisit asap and put up some pics
The Blue Anchor

The inn has a history that spans some 700 years, it first opened it's doors for trade in 1380
- over a 110 years before Christopher Columbus first crossed the Atlantic Ocean and discovered America!
It has traded almost continuously since then and is now world famous as a pub, renowned for it's range of real ales, and for it's high quality food.

The Bush Inn is a 14th Holstery

Set in the heart of the beautiful Vale of Glamorgan nestles the picturesque village of St Hilary with its 12th century church and delightfully thatched cottages. St Hilary is home to The Bush Inn with its low slung thatched roof, roaring log fires, extensive range of fine wine and ales and some of the best locally sourced food in the area.

The Skirrid Inn

The story of the Skirrid Mountain Inn.
Skirrid Mountain Inn is located in the village of Llanvihangel Crucorney at the base of Skirrid Mountain, which is also known as the Holy Mountain. The Holy Mountain as the legend goes was split into at the crucifixion of Christ, which created the shape of the mountain today.

Around the year 1110, the Skirrid Mountain Inn was built, which makes it the oldest public house in the Principality of Wales. Just outside the inn in the courtyard is where Owain Glyndwr gathered his troops prior to marching on to Pontrilas to fight off the English. Inside is where the tale becomes quite gruesome. The Skirrid Inn was the favorite and best location for judges to stay while they traveled their circuits around the country. If you travel up the staircase to what is now a bathroom you will visit the holding cell where several prisoners awaited their sentencing. Here in this tiny room prisoners were left until the time of their sentencing, if they could bare the wait. One such prisoner that haunts this small room is one that could not bare the sentencing of death by hanging and split his own throat before the judge announced sentence.

What was the courtroom at the time is on up the stairs. This is the room in which Bloody Judge Jefferies gave sentence to each and every prisoner. His name of course is from the many people he sentenced to death by hanging. Not only did he sentence these men to death by hanging, but also the hangings were actually carried out from a beam that was placed across the joist of the staircase. Once the person was pronounced dead, they would be laid upon the stone slab at the bottom of the stairs. This slab is still there today telling the tale of the 183 bodies that were laid to rest here until the time of burial.

Throughout the inn, visitors have complained of lights being turned on and off, televisions being turned off, orbs floating through the air, and power cuts. No one has actually seen any of ghosts that haunt Skirrid Inn, but their presence is felt and seen through orbs and other ghostly apparitions.

Iechyd Da
Derek