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Picture source: Historic England Archives

The Horse & Groom was situated on Bath Road. First noted in 1761 as "One Mile House" and then as "Mile House" in 1790, its name derived not from its distance from anywhere in particular, but rather in that 'mile' meant 'mill' and its stream was powerful enough to drive a waterwheel. It survived until the 1860s when George Hanbury (of brewers Truman, Hanbury & Buxton) dammed this stream to create a pond in the garden of his new home "Blythewood" (now "Hitcham House"). The mill may already have been brewing ale so its reinvention as a pub was a natural progression. A Grade II listed building, it changed name again to "The Horse & Groom" before finally closing in 1990. It became a pre-school nursery in the mid-1990s.

Source: David Chapman

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