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Summary: Station Road. 1851 - now.

The Railway Tavern stands at the entrance to the railway station. The original station was opened at Hungerford (as a terminus) in 1847, and it is likely that The Railway Tavern was opened at ariound the same time.

The first reference to the Tavern was in the 1851 census:

1851 (CS) Benjamin Stone (41), Innkeeper; Elizabeth Stone (30) and son (1); George Fernell (55) Ostler.




	Railway Tavern, Aug 2001

Benjamin Stone stayed, with added responsibilities variously as "victualler; licensed to let horses", "publican & railway goods agent", and "agent to G.W.R." through 1869 (Kelly) until c1877 - the last reference being in the Kelly Directory.

Later landlords included:
1895 Kelly: Charles Strutt "Railway Tavern"
1900 Cosburn: W. Giles
1903 Kelly: Henry Walter Garrett (for the Railway Hotel)
1911 Kelly: Alfred Smallbone (again the Railway Hotel)
1915 Kelly: Alfred Smallbone, "Railway Hotel"
1920-24 Kelly: Henry Ring "Railway Hotel"
1928 Kelly: James T. Cope
1931 Kelly: Mrs. Agnes Lilley
1935 Kelly: H. George Cook
1936 Kelly: Harold Cosh "Railway Hotel"
1939 Kelly: Albert John Sealy (now the Railway Tavern)