Westoning: The Nags Head public house (disused)
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Westoning: The Nags Head public house (disused)
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 30 Jun 2008
Photographed for posteriority The Nags Head on Greenfield Road was the third of Westoning's pubs, the others being Image and Image It has recently closed and the site is now the subject of a planning application for new housing. The pub is certainly shown on the Ordnance Survey's map edition of 1882, but just why it was built in the first place and then how it survived for so long on the edge of the village with few houses in the immediate vicinity, and with competition from the others, is a mystery. The Charles Wells Brewery of Bedford were the former owners.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.984018
Longitude
-0.493586