A Right Royal Round: Tamworth’s Pubs, Pints & Hidden History

A Right Royal Round: Tamworth’s Pubs, Pints & Hidden HistoryA Day Exploring Tamworth I had a brilliant evening exploring the pubs of Tamworth. I started at The King’s Ditch before calling into the Sir Robert Peel, the award-winning Tamworth Tap, Market Vaults and Hop House, then finishing with Old Bank House and the wonderful Moat House. There was a lovely mix of historic buildings, traditional pubs and modern beer choices, with some fantastic welcomes from the people I met along the way. I also stopped at St Editha’s churchyard to see the memorial to the six servants who died in the Castle Hotel fire. A fascinating evening of beer, history and conversation! A Little History of Tamworth Tamworth has a remarkable history, stretching back to its days as a royal centre of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia. Mercian kings spent time here, and in 913 Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, strengthened the town’s defences against Viking attacks. After the Norman Conquest, Tamworth Castle was built…