Sign for the Vine Tree, Frome
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Sign for the Vine Tree, Frome
Image: © Maigheach-gheal Taken: 21 Sep 2009
The vine was formerly far more common as a pub name than it is today, though it is still well represented. It is sometimes a heraldic reference to the Worshipful Company of Distillers (1638) whose arms show a vine bearing grapes, but the sign was already being used in the fourteenth century.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.234725
Longitude
-2.312625