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Date of photo: 2009	Picture source: Google Streetview
The Romping Donkey closed in 2012 and has now been converted into housing.  This was a grade-II listed pub that was previously known as The Red Lion.
From The Good Pub Guide 1983:
There are seventeenth-century low beams and white-painted boards ceilings at the heart of this pub, but the general atmosphere is of well-kept modern comfort, with landscape prints on the white walls, brown plush seats on the muted red-patterned carpet, golden-green velvet curtains, pewter tankards, brass ornaments and big copper kettles (the bar counter-top is copper too). The licensees are friendly and welcoming. Popular bar food includes home-made soup (50p), hot roast beef sandwiches (65p), beefburgers (65p), home-made steak and other pies (£1.65), scampi or duckettes (£1.85), gammon or chicken (£2.95) and sirloin steak (£3.50); also a separate restaurant in the evening with a full menu (and a one-hour supper licensing extension). The range of well-kept beers on handpump has been extended since the Guide's last edition Ansells Bitter and Mild, Ind Coope, Burton and Tetley's, darts, dominoes, a fruit machine, juke box, space machine and piped music. There are white tables by a honeysuckle trellis in front of this tiled white-painted house, with picnic table sets on a small side lawn besdie a pony paddock (you can hear the motorway traffic, but it's quite out of sight). No motorcyclists.
Listed building details:
Public House. C17. Timber framed with whitewashed tumbled brick infill and C20 plain tile roof. Two storeys. Road front: at right is a recessed portion of C19 date with an outshut to the ground floor with a 2-light and a single-light window and with a 2-light and a 3-light window to the first floor with a chimney stack between. To the left of this is the C17 portion which has a glazed lean-to at left which masks a ground floor C18 metal framed casement window of 2 lights with 4 x 4 panes to each light. To right of the lean-to is a further 2-light casement window. The right hand gable-end of this C17 portion is slightly masked by the C19 addition and outshut but has 4 x 3 cells of small framing with timber framing to the gable and a 3-light casement window. Central ridge chimney stack to centre of the ridge of the earlier portion.
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Date of photo: 2019	Picture source: Andy Briggs
	Picture source: Jean-Bernard Nizan