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HER Number MWB20751
Record Type Building
Name The Spring Inn, Bath Road, Sulhamstead (formerly Three Kings Jack's Booth public house)

Grid Reference SU 622 696
Map Sheet SU66NW
Parish Sulhamstead, West Berkshire
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Summary

Unlisted inn and public house, probably with 18th century origins, still in use in the early 21st century

Monument Type(s):

  • INN? (18th century to Late 19th century - 1751 AD? to 1900 AD?)
  • PUBLIC HOUSE (Victorian to Early 21st century - 1847 AD? to 2013 AD)

Full Description

The Three Kings Jacks Booth is shown on the OS First edition map of 1878 <1> and on later historic mapping, on the A4 Bath Road in Sulhamstead parish. Its name was changed around the millennium to the Spring Inn. Historical pub research indicates that the Three Kings Jacks Booth was in operation in 1847 (from the Post Office directory) <2>.

The name Jack's Booth also appears on earlier mapping such as the early 19th century Ordnance Survey Drawing <3>; on Rocque's 1761 map <4> the building is named 'Jack Boot'.

Sources and further reading

---1847. Sulhamstead Abbots and Bannister tithe award and maps. Marked 'Jacks Booth'. [Map / SWB150044]
http://ww2.berkshirenclosure.org.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=DD1%2f124%2f1%2f1 (Accessed 09/11/2023)
<01>Landmark. 1872-85. Digital Ordnance Survey Mapping Epoch 1, 1:2500 (25 inch). Digital. 1:2500. Marked 'Three Kings Jack's Booth (P.H.)'. [Map / SWB14341]
<02>Wilding, K and Harris, S. Public Houses, Inns & Taverns of Berkshire. https://pubwiki.co.uk/Berkshire/. 18/12/2013. Sulhampstead, Three Kings Jacks Booth. [Website / SWB148574]
https://pubwiki.co.uk/Berkshire/ (Accessed 08/02/2021)
<03>Ordnance Survey. 1809. Ordnance Survey Drawing of Reading; BL OSD 126, 19. Two inch to the mile. Marked 'Jacks Booth'. [Map / SWB147331]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ordnance_Survey_Drawings_-_Reading_(OSD_126).jpg (Accessed 12/09/2022)
<04>Rocque, J. 1761. Rocque's Map of Berkshire. 1:35,000 (approx). Marked 'Jack Boot'. [Map / SWB7242]
https://www.rct.uk/collection/700042/rocques-map-of-berkshire (Accessed 09/02/2021)
<05>Page and Ditchfield (eds). 1923. Victoria County History (VCH) Berks III 1923. Vol 3. p307. [Monograph / SWB10005]
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/berks/vol3 (Accessed 08/03/2022)

Related Monuments

MWB5909A4 BATH ROAD - General Record (Monument)

Associated Excavations and Fieldwork

  • None recorded

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