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| History of the Bowyer Arms |
| The village pub, the Bowyer
Arms, was built around the middle of the 19th century
on the site of an earlier farmhouse, no doubt to provide
hospitality services for users of the nearby railway station.
The name derives from the Bowyer family who, at the time,
owned the Radley Hall Estate and many properties in and
around the village, having inherited them from the Stonhouse
family in 1794. Morlands, the Abingdon brewers, originally
rented the property from the Bowyer estate and eventually
purchased it in 1882. |
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The
Bowyer Arms in July 2004 |
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With
the demise of Morlands and the Abingdon Brewery in 1999,
the pub passed into the hands of Greene
King. Since then it has been extensively renovated
both internally and externally and, particularly in
summer when the many hanging baskets are in full bloom,
provides an attractive centrepiece to the village.
Carol
Cavanagh, who was tenant manager with her husband
Eddie from 1991 to 2008, was Clerk
of the Green Cloth from 2002 to 2006.
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