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The Barley Mow Inn 1890 Ref: 27010
The Barley Mow Inn 1890
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This was my grandfathers favourite inn at the time the photograph was taken. He was coachman at the Manor House at Long Wittenham a short walk along the 'Maddy' (a road from the inn to Long Wittenham following the river and very prone to flooding). Its a family story that he would often spend too long here and Granny would have to prepare the horse and coach and dress up in his clothes to fetch the master of the house from Didcot station several miles away. I remember her as a very resourceful woman. She died in 1938 on her 83rd birthday.

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A memory of Clifton Hampden in Oxfordshire shared on Thursday, 6th April 2006.

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RE: RE: Family Connections.

This inn is described in Chapter 18 of the classic English humor travelogue, "Three Men in a Boat".

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