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The Boat & Railway Hotel was situated on Wharf Road and is now used as an accountants office. This grade-II listed building dates from the later 18th century and was originally the Boat Inn (later the Boat and Railway Inn). Much of the fabric of the 18th century inn survives but the present Tudoresque appearance is the result of alterations in 1849 by Edward Browning in connection with the rebuilding of the Town Bridge and adjacent toll-house. This house has 17th century origins although it has windows and a porch of 1847. Traces of a painted advertisement for the Boat and Railway Inn can be seen on the south wall. This pub closed in 1962.

Len and Beryl Godsland my parents were the last landlord and landlady of the pub. I was born in the pub in 1955 and lived there along with my older brother and sister till it closed.

Richard Godsland (September 2022)

Listed building details:

C17 origin. fenestration and porch of 1847. 2 storeys and attics. Coursed rubble. Stone dressings. Stone slate roof with brick stacks at gable ends and 2 gabled dormers, Central moulded gable with finials and one window with dripmould above C19 carved Wood door hood on brackets and rectangular bay of 10 lights with wood mullions, wood parapet with date. 6-panel door under glazed rectangular fanlight, chamfered wood pilasters. 2 windows of 6 lights on first and ground floors, wood mullions under stone lintels, rusticated architraves, moulded string at cills and treads. Moulded string continues heads of smaller ground floor windows.

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