Author List of Pubs & Inns with a literary connection

The Eagle has Landed!

"From the towns all inns have been driven; from the villages most... Change your hearts, or you will lose your inns, and you will deserve to have lost them. But when you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves - for you will have lost the last of England." 

Hilaire Belloc, "From This and that on Inns", 1912


Dickens pips Belloc and comes joint second with Thomas Hardy:

http://www.homesteadbb.free-online.co.uk/author.html

Funnily enough, one of Belloc's favourite watering holes was the Spread Eagle Hotel in Midshurst. Herman Goering liked it to and the Eagle in the lounge adorned his chair in the Reichstag. He apparently chose a site, down the road, which was to be his country seat after the successful conquest of Britian!

I wonder what would have happened if Belloc had bumped into him. Belloc, of course, had a track record of opposition to German (Prussian) militarism by then. The origins, of which, lie in the Franco Prussian war of 1870-1871. During the conflict the family home (in La Celle Saint-Cloud) was wrecked by invading Prussian soldiers.

Belloc, Hilaire
Blackboy	Blackboys	Sussex	The Four Men
Black Swan	Peas Pottage	Sussex	The Four Men
Bridge Inn	Amberley	Sussex	The Four Men
Crabtree Inn	Crabtree	Sussex	The Four Men
Cricketer's Arms	Duncton	Sussex	The Four Men
Fountain Inn	Ashurst	Sussex	The Four Men
Franklands Arms	Washington	Sussex	The Four Men
Forester's Arms	Graffam	Sussex	The Four Men
Fullers Arms	Brightling	Sussex	The Four Men
George Inn	Henfield	Sussex	The Four Men
George Inn	Robertsbridge	Sussex	The Four Men
George & Dragon	Houghton	Sussex	The Four Men
Greyhound	Cocking	Sussex	The Four Men
Gun Inn	Findon	Sussex	Often frequented
Spread Eagle	Midhurst	Sussex	Often frequented
Swan	Petworth	Sussex	Often frequented
Tabby Cat Inn	West Grinstead	Sussex	Often frequented
Three Horseshoes	Elstead	Sussex	The Four Men
White Hart	Storrington	Sussex	The Four Men
White Hart	Steyning	Sussex	The Four Men
Washington Inn	Washington	Sussex	The Four Men

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