Site of Woodbine Cottage public house, Thorpe bridge, Southam
Description of this historic site
Site of historic public house situated on the south side of the road from Southam to Ufton, outside the main centre of Southam.
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Notes about this historic site
1 Site of Woodbine Cottage public house, Thorpe bridge, Southam.
Historic public house recorded on Fwhite & Co.’s database which show it in existence in 1874.
Situated on the south side of the road leading from Southam to Ufton, just before the road crosses the river Itchen at Thorpe bridge, outside the main centre of Southam.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
Comments
Woodbine Cottage had been a public house since at least the 1850s when William BICKNELL, who was my Gx2Grandfather, lived there and was the licencee. The Licence was transfered to Edward WILKINS at Southam Petty Sessions on 1 Dec 1879. William BICKNELL’s wife, Elizabeth, was born Wilkins, so I suspect that Edward J WILKINS shown in the photo was a younger brother, nephew or cousin.
The 1881 census shows that the tenant was a James MORGAN, which would seem to date the picture to between 1879 and 1881. The building disappears from the OS maps sometime in the 1940’s-50’s period and there is only now a field opening to mark the approximate location. An obituary for William Arthur BICKNELL, died 30 Aug 1935, in the Leamington Spa Courier gives his address as Woodbine Cottage Stoneythorpe, although I can, as yet, not connect him to the original William BICKNELL who lived there 1850’s to 1879.
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