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Description: | The inn was opened in the early nineteenth century as the Middleton Arms, named after the family who owned the Townhill Park Estate. It was restyled the Swan about 1830, and more explicitly the White Swan about 1870. Apparently, it was known colloquially as the Mucky Duck. It is a two-storeyed stuccoed building, with a hipped slate roof and a projecting plain chimney stack (Hampshire Treasures). It lies on the north side of Mansbridge Road, next to the River Itchen, alongside the old A27 road.
The inn was formerly owned by Cooper's Brewery. In the nineteenth century, it was a residential country inn, advertising fine gardens and trout fishing in the River Itchen. Heavily modernised in the 1960s and 1988, the White Swan is still a popular local resort.
Reference:
Gallaher, Tony. 1995. Southampton's Inns and Taverns, p 114. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Subjects: | inn White Swan building Cooper's Brewery River Itchen Middleton Arms pub South Stoneham public house Swan Mansbridge bridge river | Temporal: | start=1903-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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