The Tennis Court
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The Tennis Court
Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 4 Jul 2024
Once a busy pub on the outskirts of the main road through Kingswood and Warmley, the Tennis Court closed in August 2016, and was converted into residential use. It was once the haunt of some of the notorious Cock Road gang of the nineteenth century. Reports regard an incident in November 1824, seven members of the gang, including Mark Whiting and James Caines, were drinking in the Tennis Court Inn when Isaac Gorden came in. After a hostile exchange of words, Gorden was later found close by having been beaten and stabbed to death. Six members of the gang were tried for murder at the Gloucester Assizes in April 1825. All were acquitted except Mark Whiting and James Caines, who were hanged.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.460184
Longitude
-2.486457