There are a few references to a Ramblers Rest during the 1850s.
A newspaper report on the 13th of February 1857, states of a certain William Liptrot Chamberlain, a well known solicitors assistant after taking tea at the Ramblers with his wife, retired after feeling unwell. He was later found dead in bed at the pub.
Licensees were Isaac Aldridge, who transferred the licence to Thomas Clayton in March 1858. Thomas Clayton handed over in turn to John Wright April 1859.
In December 1859, an exhibition of pigs was shown at the Ramblers.
Very little other records seem as yet to have been unearthed so there could have been a name change or rebuild.
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