The Laughing Fish
Introduction
The photograph on this page of The Laughing Fish by Simon Carey as part of the Geograph project.
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The Laughing Fish
Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 3 Mar 2011
The village pub was built in the 1870s to serve the recently arrived railway and was called the Station Inn. It replaced the former village pub located opposite the post office known as the Half Moon Inn and now a private house called Lime Tree Villas. The name was changed to the current one sometime in the 1950s, believed to be because the then landlord was a keen angler and found the original name boring. It survived the closure of the station in 1969 but has benefited from the reopening in 1986 as a preserved line. Since the 1950s the pub has been the organiser of the 'Tommy Trot' a race to the old steam mill and back carrying half a tankard of beer the winner being the person who has the most liquid left in their container.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.935637
Longitude
0.063793