Public House with restaurant
Introduction
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Public House with restaurant
Image: © Anthony O'Neil Taken: 9 Nov 2022
At Little Bollington: The swan is a Royal bird in England: any having no known owner belong to the Crown. Formerly, no one was permitted to own a swan except by Royal licence. For more than three centuries, two of the London Guilds - the Dyers Company and the Vintners Company - have shared ownership of Thames swans. Every year representatives of these companies, and the Crown, go up the river by boat to round up the young swans and mark them by one or two ‘nicks’ in their bills … hence the origin of the pub sign (and also of ‘swan upping’).
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Image Location
Latitude
53.379332
Longitude
-2.408394