Winterslow Hut

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Winterslow Hut
Winterslow Hut 1899.png
Winterslow Hut c. 1899
Winterslow Hut
Alternative names
  • The Pheasant Hotel
  • The Pheasant Inn
  • The Pheasantry
General information
StatusCeased trading in 2007, converted to 4 modern dwellings in 2010
Type Coaching inn
LocationLondon Road
Town or city Winterslow, Wiltshire
CountryEngland
Coordinates 51°06′43″N1°40′14″W / 51.1120°N 1.6705°W / 51.1120; -1.6705

Winterslow Hut was a late 17th-century coaching inn on the London to Exeter stagecoach route at Winterslow, Wiltshire, England. [1] [2] Its isolated location on Salisbury Plain between Salisbury and Andover, with a spring close by, made it a useful resting place for drovers, and later for stage and mail coaches. [3]

Contents

The quiet surroundings and solitude, interrupted only by the arrival of the coaches, also drew the critic and essayist William Hazlitt to the inn in the early 19th century, where he regularly rented a room and produced some of his greatest writing, including Lectures on the English Comic Writers (1819) and the first volume of Table-Talk (1821). [2] [4]

Artist's impression of the attack on 20 October 1816 Lioness Attacking the Exeter Mail Coach.jpg
Artist's impression of the attack on 20 October 1816

Winterslow Hut was brought to national attention when an escaped lioness attacked the horses of the London-bound Quicksilver mail coach as it drew up outside the inn during the night of 20 October 1816. [5]

During World War II, the inn was used as off-base officers' accommodation for Royal Air Force night fighter crews stationed at RAF Middle Wallop. [6]

Fate

The Pheasant Hotel in 2007 A30 at the Pheasant Hotel - geograph.org.uk - 468757.jpg
The Pheasant Hotel in 2007

By the 20th century, the business was trading as the Pheasant Hotel [7] or the Pheasant Inn. [8] The inn closed in 2007 and the much-altered building is now four dwellings. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Hazlitt, William (1850). Winterslow: Essays and Characters Written There. London: David Bogue. p. v.
  2. 1 2 Wu, Duncan (1 February 2006). "William Hazlitt: The lion in Winterslow". The Independent . London. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  3. 1 2 Riddle, Annie (25 November 2009). "Plan to turn hotel into homes". Salisbury Journal . Salisbury. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  4. ↑ Harper, Charles George (1899). The Exeter Road. London: Chapman & Hall. pp. 156–157.
  5. ↑ Kirby, R.S., ed. (1820). Kirby's Wonderful and Eccentric Museum. Vol. 6. London: R.S. Kirby. p. 20.
  6. ↑ Rawnsley, Cecil Frederick; Wright, Robert (1957). Night Fighter. London: Collins. p. 167.
  7. ↑ Historic England. "Winterslow Hut Barrow Group (223513)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 3 March 2021.
  8. ↑ "Question: Winterslow Hut". Wiltshire Community History. Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
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