The John Willis map of 1768 shows and names that road, easily identified by the King Charles Tavern building on the corner with Cheap Street.
The KC is No 70 and No 71 is The Sun. No73 Weaver's Arms and 74 the Pigeons with 72 The Newmarket and 69 the Borough Arms with last but not least the recently demolished Rising Sun, now a KFC and a Cleaners.
A couple of other long gone's No 27 The Work House No 26 St Mary's Almshouses and No 25 The Quakers burial Ground.
Fair enough on Greenham Lane but you need to be a bit wary of the numbered key. If I remember correctly (not always the case) Willis appended a list of 20 or so notable sites - though it might have been Walter Money who added the key when he used the map in his History of Newbury (1887). The rest were added when Brian Coghlan redrew the map for Newbury Buildings Past and Present (ca1970). Most of the pubs listed did not exist when Willis drew the map! For instance the Pigeons was built ca1830, the Newmarket in 1872, the KC, Rising Sun and Borough Arms were beerhouses (ie post 1830). The sites may be correct but they could as easily have fit into the gaps shown by Willis as any of the buildings he drew. The only one of the pubs you mention that was around in 1761 (from a list in the Borough Minutes) is the Weavers' Arms - now the restaurant end of the chippy. |
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