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Burial ground under pub

Human remains may be dug up from under pub car park for convenience store

17-Dec-2015 By Oli Gross

When a pubco announces plans to build a convenience store on a pub car park, it’s often met with uproar from licensees, regulars and locals. But Marston's pub the Plough and Harrow in Sutton Coldfield has an unusual problem – the site is based on...

Hamish Champ: Wherever I lay my hat, it's probably a pub

19-Jul-2010 By Hamish Champ

I love staying overnight in a pub. In a 'letting room', that is. Not spark out on the floor of the saloon bar. There's a certain something - and to...

Dick Turpin's local gets new owner

01-Mar-2007

An historic Barnet pub where highwayman Dick Turpin used to drink is under new ownership. The Mitre Inn is believed to be the oldest pub in Barnet,...

London

01-Feb-2007

Spaniards Inn Hampstead Heath, London NW3 The Grade II-listed Spaniards Inn is steeped in history, including links with highwayman Dick Turpin. It is...

Couple snap up Turpin's bolt hole'

26-Feb-2004

A coaching inn in Cambridgeshire, reputed to have been used as a bolt hole by Dick Turpin, has changed hands through Fleurets' Sudbury office. The...