In the days before almost everyone owned a car, quiet villages situated miles from
the nearest town needed village shops able to supply all the essentials.
Although Abingdon has the second oldest independent brewery in the country, Morland, the Old Globe, on the far side of the square, is selling Usher's Ales.
This rough-cast, three-storied and three-gabled public house was built in 1615 beside the 12th-century flint church of St John the Evangelist, and its ales quenched the thirst of race-goers who flocked
canopy and
window boxes, is featured in
Charles Dickens's 'Pickwick
Papers', when Pickwick
and his three companions
dine there on their way
from Bristol to Birmingham;
they consume bottled ale
In this 1960s view of the top of Cheap Street can be seen the White Hart public house; the area known today as
Blackmore Vale was previously called the Vale of the White Hart.
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