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The Old Trent Bridge Inn

Courtesy of George L Roberts

Trent Bridge
West Bridgford
England

Allen's Illustrated guide to Nottingham of 1888 states that 'The country inn here has been recently demolished, and a more pretentious and convenient building has been erected in its place.' The Inn seen here is the 'Country Inn' to which he refers. For hundreds of years there was a single bridge over the River Trent, which gave the inhabitants of Nottingham access to the towns and villages south of the county town. An inn was built here at the southern end of the bridge, so that travellers who arrived in the vicinity of Nottingham late at night, when the walled town was closed, could wait at the inn until entering the town in the morning.

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