Samuel Pepys slept here 17/9/1663 - The Swan Inn
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Samuel Pepys slept here 17/9/1663 - The Swan Inn
Image: © Richard Humphrey Taken: 6 May 2011
One of 3 public houses still serving the village of Parson Drove, decked out as part of the national celebrations to mark the wedding of Prince William to Catherine Middleton, now Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. In September 1663 the diarist Samuel Pepys slept at the inn and was none to complimentary about it or the surrounding fens, see http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=21917
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