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The Fair Rosamund was situated on Chestnut Road, Botley. This pub has now been converted into flats.

Review from tantallon.org.uk:

Marstons Bitter GBP 1.71 Strongbow Cider GBP 2.02 Guinness Stout GBP 2.10 (9.ii.1998) Pleasant and typical enough suburban pub, with Marstons Bitter (drinkable enough) the only thing on cask (but coming out of at least four taps), and divided into a public bar, which on weekday evenings fills slowly with the pool-playing local youth, and the lounge, which is a sort of hard-wearing plush, decorated with mediaeval-type ornaments in glass cases, and fills slowly with early middle-aged computer programmers (in anoraks) from Botley who talk quietly about Visual Basic and the stock market. In the corridor between the two there is an engraving-type device of Rosamund the Fair. This isn't a being-murdered-by-Eleanor-of-Aquitaine theme pub, which is good. Facilities spotless, and no angle. Doesn't do any discernible food, but there is a meat draw on Sundays. (9.ii.1998) News Marstons want to sell it for redevelopment as houses separately from the rest of their pub estate, because it isn't as profitable as places that do food. (10.i.1999)

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