Welsh Journals

RADNORSHIRE INNS. By W. H. Howse. A VALUABLE article on this subject by the Rev. D. Stedman Davies appeared in Volume XI. (1941) of the Transactions. Mr. Davies gave a list of 148 past and present inns, but evidently did not regard the list as final and complete. I added some names for Presteigne in Volume XIII., but have since found other new names. The matter appears to be sufficiently interesting to make it worth while publishing a list of these names as a supplement to Mr. Davies' article, in conjunction with which the list should be read. Practically all the additional names belong to inns of the past, some of them closed 100 years or more. The list already published is probably fairly complete as regards present inns, and I have concentrated rather on (a) lists of licensed inns which appear in the Minutes of the General Quarter Sessions for the period 1823-1829 (b) inns which are named in the Hereford Journal from 1770 to about 1860 (c) those named in the Radnor Red Book, 1913. I have also obtained information from such sources as old coaching books, the Minutes of the Turnpike Trustees, and the memory of old inhabitants (duly confirmed). Some of the new names now added may be the former names of inns which appeared in the list already published, for it has to be remembered that the names of inns were not infrequently changed. For what it is worth I have added, in brackets, against the name of each place concerned the total number of inn names, combining Vol. XI. list with the present one. Letters (a), (b) and (c) refer respectively to the sources named under those letters above. Where years are also added, they indicate an earlier reference in some other source or, for (b), the earliest reference (not the year when the inn was opened, which may be much earlier). No attempt has been made to distinguish between the relative importance of the inns. Indeed, the material to do so is lacking. There were, however, certain inns which were of outstanding importance in