The Barley Mow is a historic public house, just south of the River Thames near the bridge at

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, England.

Overview

The pub has been called "''the best known of all Thames pubs''". The timber-framed building dates back to 1352 and is of traditional construction with a

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. The Barley Mow was photographed by Henry Taunt in 1877. The building was

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in 1952. According to the Thames Pilot, The Barley Mow was described in Parker's notes (1911): The Barley Mow is currently run by the

Spirit Pub Company Spirit Pub Company plc (Spirit) was a pub and restaurant company in the United Kingdom based in Burton upon Trent and originally formed by Punch Taverns. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange until it was acquired by Greene King in June 20 ...

, a large UK chain of pubs, restaurants and inns which operates the Barley Mow under their "

Chef & Brewer The Chef & Brewer collection is a collection of over 140 licensed pub restaurants in the United Kingdom, owned by the Greene King subsidiary, the Spirit Pub Company. They provide more upmarket pub food, specials and cask ales and a number of the ...

" brand.

In literature

The Barley Mow was notably featured in chapter 18 of Jerome K. Jerome's 1889 novel ''

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'': Peter Lovesey's ''Swing, Swing Together'' mentions the Barley Mow.

Gallery

File:The Barley Mow, Clifton Hampden - geograph.org.uk - 658518.jpg, General view. File:Barley Mow, Clifton Hampden.jpg, Closer view. File:The Barley Mow, Clifton Hampden - geograph.org.uk - 579388.jpg, The entrance. File:The Barley Mow, Clifton Hampden - geograph.org.uk - 579400.jpg, The Chef and Brewer pub sign, on the opposite side of the lane from the pub itself.

Bibliography

* Jerome, Jerome K. ''Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)''. J. W. Arrowsmith, 1889. * Richardson, Sir Albert Edward, and

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. ''The Art of Architecture''. Greenwood Press, 1972. * Winn, Christopher. ''I Never Knew That About the River Thames''. Ebury Press, 2010.

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