Pub and Bars in Halkyn
Britannia Inn
Pentre Road
Halkyn
North Wales
CH8 8BS
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This inn certainly goes back to the 17th century and possibly further back. It was, prior to the building of the A55 in the 1820s, situated on the main Chester to Holyhead mail-coach road. The original church was nearby. The Britannia‚s outbuildings served as the local abattoir and publicans are often described as ŒPublican and Butcher‚. It was owned from 1807 by the Duke of Westminster, and it was virtually rebuilt by them in the 1890s. The longest serving tenants, from 1886, were members of the Vickers family and they bought the premises in 1911 when the Westminster Estate sold its properties in Halkyn. The Vickers family paid £500. In 1822 a mail coach overturned on the corner between the farm and the inn and a passenger was killed. The driver was charged with causing his death but the man driving guard testified that the driver had been driving at the usual rate of seven miles an hour. He was acquitted
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