The Swan Inn
Introduction
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The Swan Inn
Image: © Bob Harvey Taken: 16 Jun 2023
A typical fenland pub, fortunately surviving, and handling the needs of the local community. See also Image Recommended. It is odd that this is not a listed building as it has a considerable history, dating from at least 1541. Samual Pepys, who visited Parson Drove on 17 and 18 September 1663, described it as a ‘heathen place’ where he had to sleep in a ‘sad, cold, stony chamber in a miserable inn’. He did, however, manage a minor seduction of the maid. He was talking about the Swan Inn. The current fabric dates, like the nearby drainage work, to the early 1830s. In 1834 it was the property of a brewer called Charles Boucher, who rebuilt it almost entirely.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.65638
Longitude
0.024281