Walton-on-Thames: The Swan
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Walton-on-Thames: The Swan
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 13 Mar 2007
The present public house was built in 1900 on the site of an inn dating from the 1760s. The American composer Jerome Kern visited The Swan, fell in love with and married the innkeeper's daughter, Eva Leale, in 1910. For genealogists the marriage is recorded in the records of the Chertsey Registration District in the quarter ending December 1910. Kern wrote some of his best-known songs at The Swan. It is now a Young's house, to be found in Manor Road.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.389629
Longitude
-0.423357