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Oulton




Last updated: January 7th 2010

Overview

  • We're currently re-checking details for this pub, so a few details may be slightly out of date at present
  • Lunchtime meals (not just snacks)
  • Evening meals
  • Traditional separate public bar
  • Pub games
  • Pub has its own car park
  • Children are welcome
  • Beer garden or other outside drinking area
  • Bus stop nearby (see public transport tab for route details)
  • Railway station within about a mile (see the public transport tab for details)

bar / diner

opened 1600

Oulton St, NR32 3BB

grid reference: TM 526 950

previously known as: Boar

listed building grade: II

tel: 01502 572160

Large local pub. Was a brewpub for a few years in mid-1990s (house beers then included Welder's Armpit & Pheasant Plucker).

Some parts date back to the late 18th century, the front part is from the 19th.


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Note

The blue boar was a heraldic sign for the Earl of Oxford a leading supporter of the Lancastrians who defeated and killed Richard III at Bosworth in 1495 - Henry VII became king - Richards emblem was a white boar forcing some pub signs to be hastily repainted.

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