Guess the Place

[CAT]

Interesting name, which appears to have been altered from The Bell Inn, which is was known as since at least the mid nineteenth century, to The Bell and Jorrocks between 1961 and 1970. The origin for 'Jorrocks' is: a humorous character in books and magazine stories by R. S. Surtees (180-64). Jorrocks is a London grocer (=owner of a food shop) who loves horse racing and hunting foxes'. One of Surtees major publications was Jorrocks, Jaunts and Jollities (1838).

Could the addition of Jorrocks to the pub name be in recognition of the former village stores that occupied an adjacent building, possibly following the store's closure?

[pete.mason]

Bell & Jorrocks Frittenden. That grocer clue was a bit obscure!!!!

[Diapason]

One last stab at it!


Could this be one of the pubs at Stone-in-Oxney?

[John Walker]

If nobody else joins in by this evening, I think you should go for it JohnFilmer 

[John Walker]

Look up one of the dictionary meanings of the second part of the pub name.  (Unless I've got it wrong of course )

There is a road to the left of the photo which crosses a tributary of the River Beult after about 1km.


This is a small village with a pub, church, primary school, garage/workshop and a memorial hall.  All strung out along one main road.

[johnfilmer]

Call me thick (and many people do), but that clue lost me JW, and I know the answer!

[John Walker]

London Grocer

[John Walker]

Between the High Weald and the Kent Downs

[John Walker]

Is the pub a Red Lion?

It's not showing as The Red Lion on the current GSV.  Might have been a Red Lion once but I can't find anything to support that.
I've not seen another pub with the same name as this one.

[pete.mason]

Is the pub a Red Lion?

[John Walker]

JohnFilmer  - Did you not pull over for a half?   


Hopefully it might bring in some new participants to GTP.

[johnfilmer]

I knew it at first glance, having driven down that road so many times.


I’ll pass at the moment to give others a chance.

[John Walker]

Thanks Pete.  Moody Mare is typical of the current run of 'trendy' pub names.


Next one - which village is this?

[pete.mason]

Another renamed pub, was always The Beech Inn. I'm pretty sure I stripped the beer dispense out about 1975 when several pubs were sold off around that area. It reopened as a restaurant a couple of years later  for a while

[John Walker]

Moody Mare, Seven Mile Lane. 


I mis-read your clue and thought the B road ran roughly east/west and not the A roads that it connects to.  Trying to find a B road in the area that runs east/west was great fun