The Missing Places

We have 2 missing pubs in the village: The Pheasant was on the A33 located where the old Little Chef was, currently everything for decades has been behind builders hoardings. There are 2 photos of The Pheasant, see other pages. However the pub we are looking for is The White Swan or The Swan. It is not on any old maps that we can find, however maybe someone knows about it. 

There is a tapestry kit from the 1960's which shows in poor detail a horse, cart and a pub. We have tracked this down to being from an original painting in 1869, however no one knows where the pub was and it isn't mentioned in the local history book we have. It might be poetic licence with a windmill in the picture, pond and a rather Arcadian scene but if anyones knows where it could be......let us know!

The Five Bells 

There is a reference to this pub in the "History of a Hampshire Parish" and I have seen in a forum of a person looking for a relative that was the landlord. The real story is that people would brew beer at home and would sell it to neighbours, in this case it was named after St Michaels church bells because the beer was brewed in the parish almshouses / church house / workhouse. This makes sense as there is another reference to it being between the Vicarage and the lodge, and today has the village hall and two small cottages on the land.