World Hotels - Inns And Taverns Of Old London

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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 914 EAN: 9781419126543 ISBN: 1419126547 Label: Kessinger Publishing Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 172 Publication Date: 2004-06-30 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing Studio: Kessinger Publishing
Editorial Reviews: No evidence is available to establish the actual date when the Tabard was built; Stow speaks of it as among the "most ancient" of the locality; but the nearest approach to definite dating assigns the inn to the early fourteenth century. One antiquary indeed fixes the earliest distinct record of the site of the inn in 1304, soon after which the Abbot of Hyde, whose abbey was in the neighbourhood of Winchester, here built himself a town mansion and probably at the same time a hostelry for travellers. Three years later the Abbot secured a license to erect a chapel close by the inn. It seems likely, then, that the Tabard had its origin as an adjunct of the town house of a Hampshire ecclesiastic.