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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… sweep of the Browney, are the ruins of Beaurepaire, or Bear Park, consisting of the shattered and roofless walls of …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… of activity being the pubs along the main street. 55 Bull baiting was among the more notorious entertainments, and the county's last baiting was reputedly at the 1833 wake. 56 As late as 1870 … it moved to Donnington. 60 Neither cock fighting nor bull baiting was confined to the wakes. In the early 19th century …
A History of the County of Oxford
… chambers, and three presumably grander chambers called the Bear, Falcon, and Dove. 1 Balliol's lessees, John Smith, … the innkeeper was William Margetts, also landlord of the Bear, but the coaching trade declined so sharply that by 1844 … in 1840 by the duke, who seems to have let it with the Bear inn. 31 41. The Bear hotel Until the 18th century the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… House. 2 Many larger houses were inns, including the Bear, the Crown, later nos. 9-11 Market Place, and the Three … for freestanding posts in the street, such as that at the Bear hotel, the successor of a sign put up in the later 17th … similar signs outside two inns immediately east of the Bear in the 17th century, the King's Arms and the Crown. 8 …