Over, 1886 OS
Swan House, Swan Inn, 80 High Street, Over
History of the Swan Inn, Over
Listed Building
late C17 or early C18. (Historic England)
Swan Inn, Over (RGL2025)
1637 John Webb of Northants sold house to Thomas Walman of Over for £22.
Enid Porter writes in Cambridgeshire Customs and Folklore p129, about New Year’s Eve:
In Over in the last century the bell-ringers of the parish held their annual supper on New Year’s Eve in the Swan Inn. They ate roast beef and drank Hot Pot made by the publican from beer, spirits, eggs, sugar, nutmeg and milk. This was imbibed from a cow horn known as a Long Tot or a Long Tom.
1901 Swan Inn
William Brittan, 55, farmer, b Over
Building dates
- Built 1660–1740
Sources for this date
- Built by 1899: EPC construction age band: before 1900
- Built 1660–1740: Listed building: late C17 or early C18 (grade II)
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