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History Walks – More than just footsteps on a path

For A Taste of Hastings and St Leonards

Discover and Explore ‘Pub Walks in Hastings and St Leonards’

Walk 3 The Horse and Groom and St Leonards

 

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Walk 1 The General Havelock, The Pier and The America Ground

Walk 2 The North Star and Alexandra Park

Walk 4 The Plough, West Hill, George Street and The Albion

Walk 5 The Royal Standard, East Hill, All Saints Street and the Cinque Port Arms

 

‘Pub Walks in Hastings and St Leonards is also available as an e-book (Amazon Kindle) and by mail order from History Walks

To see all the walks and for details of how to buy: Click Here ​

Web: www.1066haroldsway.co.uk

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A Dream of a Winter’s Walk

History Walks – More than just footsteps on a path

For A Taste of Hastings and St Leonards

Discover and Explore ‘Pub Walks in Hastings and St Leonards’

Walk 2 The North Star and Alexandra Park

 

Check out the walk on You Tube

 

Walk 1 The General Havelock, The Pier and The America Ground

Walk 3 The Horse and Groom and St Leonards

Walk 4 The Plough, West Hill, George Street and The Albion

Walk 5 The Royal Standard, East Hill, All Saints Street and the Cinque Port Arms

 

‘Pub Walks in Hastings and St Leonards is also available as an e-book (Amazon Kindle) and by mail order from History Walks

To see all the walks and for details of how to buy: Click Here ​

Web: www.1066haroldsway.co.uk

Links: CAMRA WhatPub,

A Little Something for the Weekend

History Walks – More than just footsteps on a path

 

For a Taste of Hastings and St Leonards,

Discover and Explore ‘Pub Walks in Hastings and St Leonards’

Walk 1 The General Havelock, The Pier and The America Ground

Check out the walk on

You Tube 

 

‘Pub Walks in Hastings and St Leonards’ is available as an e-book (Amazon Kindle) and by mail order from History Walks

To see all the walks and for details of how to buy: Click Here ​

Web: http://www.1066haroldsway.co.uk

CAMRA WhatPub,

Perfect for a Secret Santa

History Walks – More than just footsteps on a path

 

For a Taste of Hastings and St Leonards,

Discover and Explore ‘Pub Walks in Hastings and St Leonards’

Pub Walks

Walk 1 The General Havelock, The Pier and The America Ground

Walk 2 The North Star and Alexandra Park

Walk 3 The Horse and Groom and St Leonards

Walk 4 The Plough, West Hill, George Street and The Albion

Walk 5 The Royal Standard, East Hill, All Saints Street and the Cinque Port Arms

 

Also available as an e-book (Amazon Kindle) and by mail order from History Walks

To see all the walks and for details of how to buy: Click Here ​

Web: http://www.1066haroldsway.co.uk

CAMRA WhatPub,

Perfidy Banned

Pub Walks in Hastings and St Leonards – Walk 4

A Daytripper’s Taste of Hastings 

The Albion (formerly The Royal Albion)

To paraphrase Samuel Johnson “when a man is tired of George Street, he is tired of life; for there is in George Street all that life can afford.”
I do like the hustle and bustle of George Street, whether during the day or in the early evening, to take a coffee or sit with a pint and watch the world go by, funny as that world might be.

George Street is such a mix of pubs, eating places and coffee shops standing cheek by jowl to clothes shops, sweet shops, book shops and shops full of ‘collectibles’ that it is easy to while away the time.

There is almost too much temptation with Dragon, The Hastings Arms, Ye Olde Pump House and The Anchor but save yourself for The Albion, it offers something a little different and not a hint of ‘treachery’.

First licensed for drinks in 1730, The Albion – at the western end of George Street – is a fitting place to end the walk just a few minutes away from the start at Breed’s Place. With its subtly restored interior, this former William Younger’s house has retained the wood panelling and tartan panels of some Georgian drawing room.

There is a bar complete with boar’s head and a larger room with some tables set for eating around a wood burner. The Albion serve Tim Taylor’s Landlord, Harvey’s Best and a guest Dark Star Hop Head in a comfortable Arts and Craft setting and is a great place to end this pub walk.

But, if you do not want a beer, I would suggest Di Pola’s Gelateria, almost next door, for a couple of scoops of ice cream.

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Pub Walks in Hastings and St Leonards is available from Hastings Tourist Information, from The Bookkeeper, Kings Road, St Leonards and by mail order from www.1066haroldsway.co.uk

Discover and Explore Walks from History Walks

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The Curious Plough

Pub Walks in Hastings and St Leonards – Walk 4

A Daytripper’s Taste of Hastings – The Plough, West Hill

On West Hill, the grand terrace on Priory Road stands like a beacon but the next terrace has slightly less decoration and the next even less and so it goes on with rows of ordinary terrace houses, built at the back and hidden from the glorious views of their richer neighbours.

Continue up Priory Road, across Collier Road and The Plough, with its curious Dutch barn styled roof and white clapperboard facings stands on the left.

The Plough first opened as a beer house in 1835 before West Hill was developed in the 1870s. It stood in Mill Field with four windmills close by and even one in the Plough’s back garden, which may account for the barn style design. The last of the windmills was demolished in 1874.

The Plough is an intimate, cosy, warm and welcoming one roomed community pub. One corner suggests a front room and elsewhere exposed brickwork complements the wild retro lighting that creates a unique house, that is neither town nor country, in which to drink good beer – Harvey’s Best, Tim Taylor’s Landlord, a guest which was Jennings Cumberland and Old Rosie for the cider drinkers. Food is limited to filled cobs, crisps and nuts.

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Pub Walks in Hastings and St Leonards is available from Hastings Tourist Information, from The Bookkeeper, Kings Road, St Leonards and by mail order from www.1066haroldsway.co.uk

Discover and Explore Walks from History Walks

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A Quiet, Atmospheric, Dog Friendly Pub

Pub Walks in Hastings and St Leonards – Walk 3

A Taste of St Leonards – The Horse and Groom

Posh St Leonards, still full of Victorian and Edwardian grandeur. Those dreams that occupied the rich and famous have been largely replaced by a more pragmatic approach to urban living. The big houses still command Burton St Leonards but many have been converted to flats. The little terraced cottages, that housed the tradesmen and the washerwomen, now possess a chic that is more appealing and far more affordable.

Burton St Leonards was the first new seaside resort for the wealthy and became instantly popular with royalty and aristocracy. There were service areas for the new town; Mercatoria for shopping, and Lavatoria for laundry.

It was said ‘We should look in vain on any other coast in England for such a range of buildings as those he (James Burton) has raised below St Leonards Cliff; of a superior order, though not so ornamented as some of his previous structures. None but the unrivalled crescents of Bath and Bristol is superior to the Marina of St Leonards’. (Spas of England and Principal Sea-Bathing Places A.B. Granville, 1841).’

‘The Horse and Groom was St Leonards’ first pub. It was built and licensed in 1829 for the benefit of the workforce busy constructing the new town of St Leonards. It is on record that they were so thirsty that the pub opened before the windows were installed. Workers also came to the Horse and Groom on Saturday nights to be paid their wages and were called in from the street one by one. They came again on Sundays to quench another thirst, this time to listen to the newspapers being read aloud. Edward Thebay was ‘Sunday reader’ at the Horse and Groom for many years. (Hastings Pub History).

Thirsty workers/walkers still visit The Horse and Groom. Warm and friendly, the two rooms are separated by a horseshoe bar and a back room for larger groups. The beers, Harvey’s Best and one or two guests, are always good and you get the feeling of a proper pub with no taped music, no food (just cobs on the bar, if you are lucky) and eclectic decoration. A quiet, atmospheric, dog friendly pub where you can enjoy good conversation and when I visited, the guests were Young’s Winterwarmer, Longman Long Blade and a fine Green King Abbot that slipped down a treat.

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Pub Walks in Hastings and St Leonards is available from Hastings Tourist Information and from The Bookkeeper, Kings Road, St Leonards and by mail order from www.1066haroldsway.co.uk

Discover and Explore Walks from History Walks

To see all the walks and for details of how to buy:Click Here ​

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Links:

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Expand Your World

Take A Walk in the Park

 

The North Star and Alexandra Park, Hastings.

Pub Walks in Hastings and St Leonards

Probably one of the best parks in the country.

Venture beyond the wide-open spaces of children running and playing and mums and dads trying to keep up. Cross the road into the beginnings of winding paths and streams that weave between the trees. A miniature railway has occasional outings to the whoops and shouts of its passengers.

Gentle climbs lead you beyond a fishing lake into the beginnings of a steep valley with unmade paths that follow the stream to Old Roar Ghyll – imagining and exploring. There are ferns and overhanging trees, the sound of the water rushing through gullies and a feel of mystery, emphasised by a darkness even in high summer.

Back the same way to walk to the other side of that fishing lake and a track carpeted with leaves. It leads to more black pools surrounded by dark trees and the path climbs but the steepest hill is left to the last to ensure your thirst for a pint at The North Star that is just around the corner.

The return leads you downhill through the trees to that more manicured park, past the café and children’s playground to the gates and full circle’

The North Star is a treat too. A proper pub with little of the 21^st century. It was most likely named after the famous railway locomotive built by George Stephenson for the Great Western Railway. At one point, the locomotive was shipped to New Orleans, intended for the New Orleans Railway but the money could not be found to pay for it and it was duly returned. But why The North Star when it was so far from the station? Maybe the link is Joseph Wisden, a former guard on the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, who built the pub in the late 1860s with steam still running through his veins.

The beer is good too!

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Pub Walks in Hastings and St Leonards is available from Hastings Tourist Information and from The Bookkeeper, Kings Road, St Leonards and by mail order from www.1066haroldsway.co.uk

Something for the weekend

If it is not too cold or it is not too wet and the match on the television is not worth watching, try something a little special to add a little extra to the weekend.

 

Walk from General Havelock to the Pier and back around the America Ground.

You may have walked the route many times before but on History Walks there will always be something new to catch your attention before indulging in that much needed pint.

Pub Walks in Hastings and St Leonards is available from

• Hastings Tourist Information, Breeds Place Hastings
• The Bookkeeper, Kings Road, St Leonards
• Mail Order fro History Walks www.1066haroldsway.co.uk

Taste Journey

It’s New Years Day

East Hill to blow the cobwebs away – it is only a ‘few’ steps to the top and then down hill all the way to All Saints Street.

     

Try ‘Pub Walks in Hastings and St Leonards’ to breathe fresh air into a New Year.

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