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My daughter is looking for history of The Linnet in Great Hinton for a school project, but we are not having much success finding anything out. Can you help?

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04 July 2011

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The Linnet is a mid 18th century inn with a brewhouse that is dated 1816. Its original name was the New Inn and there is a 1766 inventory of possessions for John Kingman, a victualler of Hinton, who I am sure must have been innkeeper of the New Inn For nearly 100 years the inn was run by just two families.

1848 (date of first directory to list Great Hinton) Stephen Sims

1867 and 1875 Mrs Sims - most probably the widow of Stephen

!880 to 1907 John Langley - John is listed as a brewer and latterly as a bootmaker. I am sure that the Simms also brewed here.

1911 - 1939 (date of last Wiltshire directory) Howard John Langley

Howard Langley also brewed and made cider with the large cider press at the house. I think that the pub was taken over by Wadworth's in the 1950s, when brewing here would have ceased. My memory says that they renovated it and changed the name in the early 1970s.

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