Llandoger Trow
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| Llandoger Trow | |
 The Llandoger Trow |
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| Building Information | |
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| Location | Bristol |
| Country | England |
| Completion Date | 1664 |
The Llandoger Trow is an historic public house situated on King Street in Bristol, England.
It dates from 1664 and is in King Street, between Welsh Back and Queen Charlotte Street, near the old city centre docks. A trow was a flat-bottomed barge, and Llandogo is a village some 20 miles north of Bristol, on the River Wye in South Wales, where trows were once built.
It was partially destroyed by a bomb in World War II but three of the original five projecting gables remain. It is a grade II* listed building.[1]
Tradition has it that Daniel Defoe met Alexander Selkirk (Robinson Crusoe) here, and it was Robert Louis Stevenson’s inspiration for the Admiral Benbow in Treasure Island. There are reputed to be secret underground passages for the use of smugglers.
In 1962 it became a Berni Inn, but now belongs to Whitbread and trades rather discreetly as a Brewers Fayre. Another famous Bristol pub, The Old Duke, is situated opposite the Llandoger Trow.
[edit] References
- ^ Llandoger Trow. Images of England. Retrieved on 2007-02-22.
