Former pubs of Headington
Above: the Princes Castle in Barton Village Road in the 1950s
Headington pubs and beerhouses that have disappeared include:
- Bell, 72 Old High Street, Old Headington
This pub was built in 1930 as a house for the landlord of the Old Bell, a beerhouse that occupied the seventeenth-century stables next door. The original stables/beerhouse were replaced by a modern private house, and the pub itself closed in 2000 and was demolished in May 2002. - Fox, Barton
There were three Barton pubs with this name. The first Fox was a beerhouse in a late seventeenth-century thatched cottage in Barton Village Road; the second Fox was built on the new Oxford bypass in the 1930s and demolished thirty years later when the bypass was widened; and the third Fox was built in Northway in the 1960s and closed in 2002. George Cooper was landlord in 1869 - Hare & Hounds, London Road
This pub is listed in the 1841 census on the London Road between Headington Hill and Sandhills. It was then occupied by the mason James Soanes, his wife Mary, his children John (20), Martha (15), and Edwin (15), and four other people. It was probably near Windmill Road, as in 1851 Soanes is listed as living "near the Turnpike". - New Inn, 282 (formerly 162) London Road
This was in the Quarry section of London Road, just past the Workhouse and before Green Road. Henry Quarterman is listed as landlord here in 1869–1877, Philip Durham in 1881, Daniel Stevens 1885–1921, and John Henry Stevens 1922–1931. It was then turned into a shop, and has since been redeveloped. - Plough, The Croft, Old Headington
George Taylor was the landlord in 1864. This was also evidently in the Croft, as the 1862 census lists George Taylor (aged 36 and described as a "Carpenter & Joiner & Beer Retailer ") as living there with his wife Sarah and children George, Clara, Harry, Frederick, and a newborn daughter. - Prince’s Castle, Barton Village Road.
A blacksmith’s and stables were built next door to Barton Manor in the seventeenth century and the building was nicknamed "The castle". The landlord in 1869 was the market gardener James Lock. In the late nineteenth century the stables were pulled down and Hall’s Brewery built the Prince’s Castle pub on the site. It closed in the 1980s and is now a private house. - Rose & Crown, The Croft
The part of the Croft leading from Osler Road to Old High Street is described in the Headington Enclosure Award of 1804 as passing "near the Public House called the Rose and Crown" - Shotover Arms, 298 London Road
This pub, along with an adjoining filling station, opened to the east of Green Road in 1931. It is a large Tudoresque-style building, and was converted into a hotel in 1957 when the northern bypass was built. It still exists, but is now a McDonald’s - Swan (formerly the Spotted Pig), 8 The Croft, Old Headington
This is one of the listed buildings of Headington, and more information can be found here - Waterman Beerhouse, The Croft, Old Headington
This is listed in the Headington Rate-Book for 1850 as being owned by Henry Hedges and occupied by Adam Beesley. It had a gross estimated rental of £12 and a rateable value of £9 a year. It was evidently in the Croft in Old Headington, as the 1851 census shows Adam Beesley, a 38-year-old boatman, living in the Croft with his wife Caroline and daughter Emma
Below: Advertisement from Jackson's Oxford Journal of 25 August 1860 offering the Fox for sale:
