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Crown and Thistle

June 2021

The Crown & Thistle PH (public house) is shown on the 1865 OS map about 1/2 mile West of Rudchester, but it's not on any other available maps. It is not clear whether the pub was the whole of the Ironsign site or just the North East area. I'm not sute that this is technically in Rudchester... but I like the idea of having a Rudchester pub, so here it is.

Ironsign is recorded as the site of a former Inn on the Military Road by the Heddon-on-the-Wall Local History Society website, but I have not been able to find out any more about its history.

The buildings have evolved over the years with additions (shaded green) and demolitions (shown in red):

1865

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1865

The first edition OS map showing the Crown and Thistle PH as a rectangular courtyard

1897

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1897

Additional farm buildings within the courtyard are see in 1897 - shaded green

1919

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1919

By 1919, sections of the courtyard had been demolished and additional accomodation built across its centre

1963

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1963

By 1963, a Dutch barn had been added to the East, 2 agriculrural buildings in the South West and a new house in teh SOuth East corner of the site.

2021

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2021

The current OS map show significnat reconfiguration with the removal of many of the old farm buildings, the addition of a shed East of the Dutch barn and a significant extension to the house

Apple aerial map 2021

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2021

This is the current Apple Maps aerial view of Ironsign.