The Three Horseshoes, Monmouth

The Three Horse Shoes
The Three Horse Shoes, Monmouth
Former names	The Three Horse Shoes Inn
General information
Type	Public House (since 1888)
Address	21 Drybridge Street
Town or city	Monmouth
Country	Wales
Coordinates	51°48′33″N 2°43′17″W / 51.80908°N 2.7213°WCoordinates: 51°48′33″N 2°43′17″W / 51.80908°N 2.7213°W
Completed	Before 1888
Landlord	Sam Fletcher

The Three Horseshoes is a public house in Drybridge Street in the Overmonnow area of Monmouth, Wales. The pub has also been used as an Inn and also known as The Three Horse Shoes Inn. The building has been a Grade II Listed building since 15 August 1974. 19th century 2 storeys, roughcast as stone with a hooded doorway^[1][2]

History

The pub was originally set up by Blacksmith William Philips in the 1880s. The forge that Philips set up was also in Drybridge Street and had been set up in 1859. The Three Horse shoes name coming from the business that Philips was picking up from passing trade where a horse had shed a shoe.^[3]

In 1923 Osbert Wheeler was the publican the Three Horse Shoes yard was occupied by a horse breaker called Victor Mackie.^[3]

Notes

1. "DRYBRIDGE STREET, NO 21;THREE HORSE SHOES INN MONMOUTH". Royal Commission on the National Monuments Record of Wales (NMRW). Retrieved 23 March 2012.
2. "Listed Buildings in Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales". Retrieved 8 April 2012.
3. Heather Hurley, The Pubs of Monmouth Chepstow and The Wye Valley, Logaston Press, 2007, ISBN 978-1-904396-87-1, page 38