The New Inn, Pembridge in Herefordshire was originally a farmhouse. This attractive half-timbered building was known for many years as 'The Inn without a name'. Its proximity to Pembridge's open market hall probably led to it becoming an alehouse, since the farmer would have brewed and sold ale to the local wool merchants. By the seventeenth century it had been extended into an inn and also housed the local court for many years
Two ghosts apparently haunt the New Inn; one is a young girl who appears only to women, the other a red-coated soldier bearing a sword.
A huge round-backed settle in the bar is said to be part of an old dismantled cockpit and a reminder of coaching days is a whip rack in the public bar. |
