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Picture source: Russell Judge

The Windbound was situated on Shepperdine Road. This pub closed in 2004 and is now used as a care home.

Until some point before 1960 it was called the "New Inn".The building dated from the 16th century and was demolished in 2015. I never went inside it as a pub, but in 2005 when working in the area I drove there intending to have lunch, having seen it marked as an inn on a map I had. I like such out of the way places. But on arriving in the car park it dawned on me that it was an inn no longer. I walked in as far as the porch where I had a brief and confused conversation with a young guy who clearly had mental problems. It had become a care home, in 2004 as I later found out. It is surprising that it lasted as an inn until then. It was on the banks of the Severn estuary at the dead end of miles of single track road, far from any town and with only isolated farms around. But in the days of sailing ships it would have been a place ashore for sailors from ships anchored in the estuary waiting for a favourable wind. Such inns were often of poor repute at the time. An Italian family called Sabbani ran it as a pub-restaurant from 1998 until closure in 2004.

John Keaton (April 2024)

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Name	Dates	Comments
Stanley Smith	1990s	Did a lot of walking, used this pub for refreshments