The Three Tuns, Devizes Road, Wroughton

Image: © Brian Robert Marshall Taken: 6 Sep 2010

Yet another pub closure is recorded here. The pub is owned by Arkell's brewery Image The erstwhile landlords took over the pub as recently as December 2009. No explanation has been given for their departure and the future of the pub is uncertain. According to a director: “It is with regret that we have had to close the Three Tuns at Wroughton following the departure of the landlords. “As we do not have a landlord in a position to take over the pub we have boarded it up and have yet to make a firm decision about its future. It is possible that it will not be open again in the short term.” (source swindonadvertiser.co.uk) The brewery bought the pub as far back as 1889 when it was already a substantial property, with "brewhouse, stables, coach house, shed, piggeries, other out-buildings, yard, garden, half an acre of orchards and meadow land, known as Home Close". Local legend has it that a local, one Dickie Tarrant, would take his horse into the pub with him. The restricted size inside meant the horse had to leave the bar backwards. (source swindonadvertiser.co.uk who probably got it from the Arkells website) Commenting on the closure a local parish councillor has been quoted as saying: “I don’t think people will be too sad about it. We’ve got plenty of pubs in the village.” (source swindonadvertiser.co.uk)

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