Threatened with closure and redevelopment as housing, the local community raised funds to try to buy the property (The Merry Men), bought by a local farmer and wife who after a difficult period ended up becoming the landlord himself. Centre of much…
Sign reads: "Ye Bowmen and ye Archers good, Come in and drink with Robin Hood. If Robin to that fate has gone, Then take a glass with Little John" 1834 A.D.