Reported as situated in the Oadby side of the toll gate opposite Victoria Park, between Old Horse and Evington Lane circa 1830s.
It certainly was a house of trouble, as the early newspaper reports of the 1830s & 40s suggest. Thomas Orton was victualler during 1830s.
The following are excerpts from the newspaper court reports.
Evading the toll charge for a horse.
13 November1841. There were more examples of the Rose & Thistle mentioned in court cases, but nothing is known of the Inn after 1850, about the time the toll gate was removed.
Supposedly the Toll Gate London Rd