Public Houses
The Cross Keys
The original Cross Keys stood where the Cross Keys accommodation building now stands (at the back of the Cross Keys car park). It was a thatched premises built after 1806 as it does not appear on a map of that date.
The new Cross Keys public house was built in 1856 with the same bricks used to build Newbold Vicarage.
The Cross Keys has had a number of interesting landlords and landladies including Clara Crabtree who claimed to be the oldest landlady in England in 1943 at the age of ninety one.
Mr Alf Poyser, also known in the village as the Old Codger, was a regular contributor to Newbold News magazine. In one article he gave an interesting account of his first visit to the Cross Keys.
The Railway Inn
The Railway Inn (now the Gelsmoor or Gs) stands on the Gelsmoor crossroads. The pub does not exist on the 1832 map of the area but it is marked on a map from 1885. We have little information about the landlords and landladies who ran this pub although we know that Clara Crabtree was licensee at some point.
