Folly Inn Whitecliffe (General)

by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Sunday, August 19, 2007, 02:00 (6312 days ago) @ biddy

In Whitecliff the sign of the Folly, recorded in 1757, (fn. 29) belonged in 1851 to a beerhouse at the entrance to Rock Lane. (fn. 30)

In the lower part of Whitecliff the Nag's Head, opened by 1790, (fn. 31) was known in the 1830s as the Traveller's Rest (fn. 32) and was the hamlet's only public house in 1910. (fn. 33) It closed after 1935. (fn. 34)

In 1861 there was an inn at Crossways and several other public houses in the north part of Coleford tithing. The Cross Keys, at the Lower Berry Hill crossroads, (fn. 35) was presumably that called the New Inn in 1856. (fn. 36) An inn there in 1994 was called Pike House.

From: 'Coleford', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe
Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 117-38. URL:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=23255. Date accessed: 28
April 2007.