The Wenvoe Arms

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The Wenvoe Arms is a small village pub in Wenvoe (near Cardiff in South Wales, UK). Dating back to the late eighteenth century, the pub has been a focal point of the village for many years (although it was bought by S A Brain sometime in the mid 1980s, which was viewed at the time as the final step in the corporatization of Wales' small rural communities) - from its days as a tight-knit farming community, through the population explosion in the 1960s (due to both government and private property development) to the present day. Although the village's population number of a few hundred at the beginning of the twentieth century has been vastly augmented, the pub maintains a small and close-knit group of regulars, many of whom have been drinking at the Wenvoe Arms for many years. A more modern running joke is that the pub (which has a relatively small capacity, with space for a maximum of 250 people) would not be big enough to house all its past managers since Brains acquired the pub (during 2006 - between the time the last permanent licensee Matthew Beck departed and current licensee Paul Cottle took over - there were over twelve different relief managers in place, for times ranging from three weeks to one particularly unlucky manager who lasted a mere two hours before being replaced).