Completed Before 1888 Phone +44 1600 712802 | Country Wales Landlord Sam Fletcher | |
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Former names The Three Horse Shoes Inn Type Public House (since 1888) Similar The Kings Head, The Saracens Head Inn, The Bell at Skenfrith, The Inn At Penallt, The Ostrich Inn | ||
The Three Horseshoes is a public house in Drybridge Street in the Overmonnow area of Monmouth, Wales. The pub has also been used as an Inn and also known as The Three Horse Shoes Inn. The building has been a Grade II Listed building since 15 August 1974. 19th century 2 storeys, roughcast as stone with a hooded doorway
History
The pub was originally set up by Blacksmith William Philips in the 1880s. The forge that Philips set up was also in Drybridge Street and had been set up in 1859. The Three Horse shoes name coming from the business that Philips was picking up from passing trade where a horse had shed a shoe.
In 1923 Osbert Wheeler was the publican the Three Horse Shoes yard was occupied by a horse breaker called Victor Mackie.
References
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