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23. King’s Head, 26-28 Market Place c1700 – 1852, now T G Jones/Post
Office.
This was where the Post Office is now, and if you look up above the entrance
you will see the following: -
William Churchman was the last licensee of this pub. Previously; Joe
Rushton had been the licensee for 35 years. A stagecoach operated from The
King’s Head and, supposedly, King George II visited Wokingham in the
eighteenth century to see the baiting of the bull in the Market Place and
stayed at this pub.
Continue along the Market Place to: -
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