Horseshoe Cottage

A view of the pub in the late 1930s, when Herbert Giles was the publican.

This house, formerly thatched, was one of the two village pubs and was called 'The Three Horseshoes'. Documents show it was functioning as a pub in the late eighteenth century but it may well date from some time before that.

It continued as a pub until 30^th July 1961, when it closed down. Rural pubs were finding it much harder to survive by this period and very many have shut down since and are still doing so. Since then, it has been a private house, renamed 'Horseshoe Cottage'

The parish registers show that Mary Smith, an 'alehousekeeper', died in 1709. It is tempting to think that she was the landlady of the Three Horseshoes, though we may never know for sure.