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BEERHOUSES

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• Dark orange square = documentary evidence exists that the pub was open in this decade.
  
• Mid orange square = no documentary evidence, but pub known to be open in this decade.
  
• Light orange square = pub is thought to have been trading in this decade - many more should probably be indicated.
  
• Some pubs (first occurrences of George, Greyhound, Nags Head, etc) had closed by 1820 and are therefore not shown.
• If pub was known by more than one name only predominant name is shown, but evidence for all names shown.
  
• Decade totals and summary statistics graphs are shown at the bottom of the chart.
  
• Records are quite scarce before 1850 and so not all premises may be listed.
  
• Similarly few documented sources were consulted post-1980

1800's

1900's

2000's

20's

30's

40's

50's

60's

70's

80's

90's

00's

10's

20's

30's

40's

50's

60's

70's

80's

90's

00's

10's

Airfield Tavern

Albion Inn

Alexandra Hotel

Anchor Inn

Angel Inn

Armoury

Arrow

Beach

Beehive Inn

Bell Inn

Bell

Black Horse Inn

Blue Ball

Bricklayers Arms

Britannia Inn 1

Britannia Inn 2

Butchers Arms

Castle Inn

Chough's Tap

Coach & Horses

Coopers Mill

Coronation Hotel

Cow Inn

Cross Keys

Crown Inn

Dolphin Inn

Duke of Clarence

Duke of Wellington

Duke of York

Elephant & Castle

Fleur de Lys 1

Fleur de Lys 2

Full Moon

George Hotel

Globe & Crown

Globe Inn

Glovers Arms

Golden Lion Inn

Great Lyde

Great Western

Green Dragon

Greyhound Inn 2

Half Moon Inn

Heart of Oak

Hollands Inn

Hop Vine Inn

John Bull Inn

King's Arms Inn

King's Head Inn

Lamb Inn

London Inn

Manor Hotel

Market House Inn

Market Street Inn

Mermaid Hotel

Milford Inn

Modello

Nags Head Inn

Nelson Inn

New Inn

Oxford Inn

Pall Inn

Pen Mill Inn

Pen Mill Hotel

Picketty Witch

Plucknett

Porter Black's

Preston Hotel

Quicksilver Mail

Railway Inn 1

Railway Inn 2

Red House Inn

Red Lion Inn

Rifleman's Inn

Royal Marine

Royal Oak Inn

Royal Standard 1

Royal Standard 2

Running Horse Inn

Seven Stars Inn

Somerset Inn

South Western Arms

Stags Head Inn

Sun House Inn

Sun Inn 1

Sun Inn 2

Swan Inn

Three Choughs

Victoria Inn

Volunteer Inn

Wellington Inn

Westfield Hotel

White Hart

White Horse Inn

White Lion Inn

William Dampier

Wine Vaults

Woods Wine Bar

Yellow Wagtail

Yew Tree Inn

TOTALS BY DECADE

21

27

36

46

58

63

62

61

58

53

51

54

53

57

54

44

38

43

44

34

 

The graphs are intended as a 'rough' guide to the number of Licensed Premises in Yeovil (excluding, in the main, simple 'beer houses'). They clearly reached a peak in the 1870's, '80's and '90's. The population was steadily rising throughout the century although the figures presented may give a slightly cloudy picture due to boundary changes during the period. The density figures are interesting, especially from the 1850's to the 1880's where there were less than 200 people per pub. Today's figure is around 1,000.