Looking for the "Bear Inn"

[KGarrad]

This one ?

http://www.menublackboard.com/mb_estab.php?e_id=8388621

Regards

Malky

Don't think so, Malky?!
Hardly

in a very feudal village close to Thame.

[Flattybasher9]

Being Scottish, feudal villages are rare up here, so was not acquainted with it's relationship to normal villages. My ignorance. I learn every day.

Regards

Malky, who will look again.

[loobylooayr]

I'm also Scottish and not au fait with feudal villages either - but what about Lower Winchendon/ Nether Winchendon Bucks ?
It has a Bear House listed building (formerly Bear Inn) - no clue about church clock though 

http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-43272-the-bear-house-nether-winchendon-buckingh

Looby

[KGarrad]

Apologies, Malky!

It's just that I was somewhat amused by the thought of Oxford being described as a feudal village!


Good find, Loobylooayr!
From the village/house website (http://www.netherwinchendonhouse.com/church-of-st-nicholas.html):
Nether Winchendon today is still a tiny, unspoilt mediaeval village with only 57 households within the parish. There is no pub, no shop, no school and no village hall.

and

The clock in the Tower, with its single hand and blue exterior face, was placed in the church in 1772

[alanmack]

Kev, Malky,
                Thank you both for your replies. Regarding the feudal thing, the only other one I've come across was in Shorwell, Isle of Wight where The Crown Inn was in my G. Uncle's hands pre First War but where the "tenant in perpetuity" was Mrs Disney Leith daughter of a Scots chap called Gordon, a London divorce solicitor, whose son inherited his uncle's Scottish title and estate. In Shorwell, what they didn't own they controlled completely until the death of Mrs Disney Leith in 1926/7.

[ShaunJ]

Nether Winchendon church does have a very unusual clock with just one hand  - but I can't find a good picture of it. http://www.westgallerychurches.com/bucks/nether_winchendon/lwin03.JPG

[loobylooayr]

http://www.netherwinchendonhouse.com/church-of-st-nicholas.html[/url]):
Nether Winchendon today is still a tiny, unspoilt mediaeval village with only 57 households within the parish. There is no pub, no shop, no school and no village hall.

Just found the link too  .
Can't find anything unusual about the church clock though. Otherwise it could fit the bill.

Looby

[alanmack]

Oooh! Good find, loobylooayr. It looks very promising indeed. Thank you.
I'll do some more checking.

[loobylooayr]

Reading up on Nether Winchendon it seems to be the perfect example of a feudal village.
Sounds lovely!
Hope that is your Bear Inn , Alanmac

Looby