Pubs in Wales

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Answer 1

Leyland Arms, Llanelidan

Leyland Arms, Llanelidan

The Leyland Arms is a Grade II listed building in the community of Llanelidan near Ruthin, Denbighshire, Wales, which dates back to 1354. It was listed by Cadw (Reference Number 1354).

The Leyland Arms is a country pub. It exists principally to maintain the local community and provide a social hub for the residents of the village. The public house occupies a prime position in the small village of Llanelidan. The entrance to the Leyland Arms can be found through the courtyard behind the main building. Once inside the building there are ceiling beams and a wood burning fire which together provide a setting that corresponds to the small bar. All the items on the menu are prepared and cooked on the premises by the landlord, with all produce being sourced from local suppliers. Accommodation is also provided.

This building is situated immediately south of St Elidan's church in the village of Llanelidan an just opposite the church. There are garden walls to right incorporating a number of perforated stone grilles; there are converted cottage and farm buildings to the rear.

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Answer 2

Oakeley Arms Hotel

The Oakeley Arms Hotel is a Grade II listed hotel near Maentwrog in North Wales. The original building dates back to the 17th century, and was once part of the nearby Tan-y-Bwlch Estate. Although its principal use has been as an inn, historically it has also been used as a post office, makeshift court house, polling station and police station.

The Oakeley Arms Hotel was originally known as the Tan y Bwlch Inn, because it belonged to the nearby Tan y Bwlch Estate. Some local records claim that the hotel was built on the original site of the estate’s manor house (now located ¼ mile west and called Plas Tan-y-Bwlch).

The inn was first built in the 1600s but was extended during the 1700s when it was owned by a local drover. In his 1778 book A Tour in Wales, it was described by writer and traveller Thomas Pennant as “a very neat small inn, for the reception of travellers who ought to think themselves much indebted to a nobleman, for the great improvement it received from his munificence ”.

Sometime during the early 1840s the inn was renamed as the Oakeley Arms, in honour of the family who owned the Tan-y-Bwlch estate. The Oakeley family were one of the richest families in the area, their wealth having come from the slate mines of nearby Blaenau Ffestiniog.

In 1910 the Oakeley Arms Hotel was auctioned off from the estate and was bought privately. It was given a Grade II listing in 1954 because of its historical importance “as a fine example of an estate-built inn (one of several associated with the major estates of north Wales) and strong architectural character consistent with this patronage, not least in the quality of the masonry”.

In the nineteenth century, the Oakeley Arms was given its own crest. It means “I’m cautious but I do not fear”.

Today, the hotel is privately owned and has recently undergone a programme of intense renovation and refurbishment.

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Answer 3

Owain Glyndwr Hotel

Owain Glyndwr Hotel

The Owain Glyndwr Hotel is a Grade II-listed inn in Corwen, Denbighshire, Wales named after the Welsh hero Owain Glyndŵr. It is. The hotel was built in the mid-eighteenth century, but incorporates elements of an earlier structure on the site. It is reportedly the location where the first public Welsh Eisteddfod was held in the late eighteenth century.

The original building dated to at least 1329 and was originally a monastery in the grounds of the nearby church. It was rebuilt or replaced circa 1740, but retained elements of the earlier building, and the current structure largely dates from this time. It was supposedly the site of the first public Welsh Eisteddfod in 1789. The hotel building was enlarged with an extra wing and re-roofed about 1890.

The inn is said to be haunted by the ghost of a young woman who had an affair with a local clergyman which outraged the locals.

The exterior walls of the two-storey main building are painted, coursed and square stone. The hipped slate roof has three gabled dormers and red-tiled decorative cresting with finials. The later wing has a similar roof, albeit with two paired sets of dormers on either side of the front wall stack, although the walls are roughcast rendered with smooth rendered dressings enriched with some terracotta. Two doors with radial fanlights lead inside from the central Corinithian portico porch. An eighteenth-century staircase and several six-panelled interior doors have survived. Substantial ceiling timbers remain at the rear of the main building as do other features that related to the earlier building.

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Answer 4

The Skirrid Mountain Inn

The Skirrid Mountain Inn

The Skirrid Mountain Inn is a public house in the small village of Llanfihangel Crucorney, just a few miles north of Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales. It is claimed to be the oldest pub in Wales and there are many popular legends about its history.Owain Glyndŵr is said to have rallied his forces in the cobbled courtyard before raiding nearby settlements sympathetic to the English king, Henry IV. The first floor of the inn was reputedly used as a Courtroom where criminals were tried and hanged.

The Skirrid Mountain Inn claims to be one of the oldest pubs in Wales and is said to have a history dating back over 900 years. In the ebook, Eerie Britain, author MB Forde points out that the Inn’s claim of dating back to around the year 1110 is exaggerated. Citing work undertaken by the Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust, the Inn is mainly a mid-late 17th century building in construction. Forde presents the theory that an inn had stood on the site previously due to it being situated upon a pilgrim trail that led to Llanthony Priory, although there is no evidence to verify this.

A popular legend is that the inn was used as a rallying point for local supporters of the Welsh Revolt against the rule of Henry IV, the uprising being led by Owain Glyndŵr. He is said to have personally rallied his troops in the cobbled courtyard before raiding nearby settlements sympathetic to the English in the 15th-century. However given that the inn wasn't built until the 17th-century this story should be taken with a pinch of salt.

Another claim to fame is that the first floor of the inn was reputedly used as a Court of Law where capital punishment was imposed for certain offences, including sheep stealing. Legend has it that as many as 180 criminals were adjudged guilty of crimes serious enough to warrant the sentence of death by hanging, a sentence that was allegedly carried out at the inn itself, from an oak beam over the well of the staircase. Markings, said to be from rope marks, still exist on the staircase wood.

The inn has a reputation for being haunted by several ghosts or spirits and has been said to be the scene of numerous supernatural occurrences or paranormal activities. The inn was featured on TV's Extreme Ghost Stories and Most Haunted with Yvette Fielding.

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Answer 5

Turf Hotel

The Turf Hotel is a public house in Wrexham, Wales, located on the corner of Wrexham AFC's Racecourse Ground.

For over a hundred years, the Turf Hotel has been the meeting place on match days for some of Wrexham’s fans (the football ground has existed for over 150 years). It was the only pub in the United Kingdom built inside the grounds of a football club.

Situated on Mold Road, which is now regarded as the ‘Gateway into Wrexham’, the Turf had been in its present position long before the football club was actually founded.

The records are unclear, but it is believed that the ‘Turf Tavern’ was built between 1840 and 1844. It was first mentioned in the ‘North Wales Commercial’ (Business Directory) in 1844, which stated that the Landlord was a John Tench. The last North Wales Commercial before that was in 1840, and there was no mention of the Turf then.

The first race meeting at the Racecourse was on 29 September 1807, and later a Grandstand was built next to the Turf, which later became known as the Mold Road stand when the football club was up and running.

Known as the Turf Tavern, its name later changed to the Turf Hotel. This is believed to have happened when the original building was knocked down and replaced by the current building in 1913. Due to the lack of building records, there is no accurate date as to when the Turf Hotel replaced the Turf Tavern.

As well as horse racing, the Racecourse was also being used by this time by Wrexham Cricket Club, and it was from members of the Cricket Club that Wrexham Football Club was formed in 1864. Cricket Club members met at the Turf Hotel on 4 October 1864, for ‘the purpose of starting a football club for the ensuing season.’ This was to give them activities for the winter months.

Not long after, changing rooms were added next to the Turf, for use by both cricketers and footballers. In fact the football pitch at this time lay from north to south, and so it remained until 1902, when it was changed to its present day orientation of east to west.

The Turf had become a focal point for the local community for the sporting events, and with the growth of football in North Wales, the Racecourse became the home of Welsh football, with international games taking place there, as well as Welsh Cup finals.

The changing rooms were used right up until the late 1940s when new changing rooms were opened under the Plas Coch stand. The changing rooms adjacent to the Turf were situated upstairs, and the teams would climb down a wooden staircase and run out over planks onto the pitch. Also on the same floor were the club offices, which you could enter from Mold Road.

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Answer 7

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