The "Cock of Tupsley" well the site as it was before the pub ws built.This old black and white Farmhouse was demolished in 1965 due to the cost of renovation and the land subsequently sold to the Banks Brewery.The farmhouse belonged to Jonathan Eaton's Grandmother who owned the property and who has kindly donated this picture.There is a large Horse Chestnut tree at the back of the farmhouse on the picture which can still be seen today.The view as is as you would look at the pub now,as in-fronting Hampton Dean Road and the side of Ledbury Road.
Very many thanks to Jonathan Eaton.
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I was born in that house. May 9th.1945
We have enjoyed many pub-meals at "The Cock" Tupsley, on our return visits to Hereford. I had no idea it's name derived from a breed of horses, -but since we have lots of relatives from Tupsley and Dormington etc., the "Cock of Tupsley" was a central point to meet up with them, and the food never disappointed.
Your picture (The Cock of Tuspley) shows the farmhouse associated with Tupsley Court Farm. It is not however taken pre 1960 but more like 1966 when the approx 2 acre site had been sold to Banks Brewery. I know this as the barn visible on the right was erected to replace the original farm building which ran immediately adjacent to Hampton Dene Road. As a lad, I worked on the farm and remember the building of the Cock by Harpers of Leominster very well.
I'm confused as on a Victorian map of the area a pub of the same name existed on the same site ?
The last house on the left of Ledbury road, travelling out of town, apparently had some claim to be the original site of the Cock of Tupsley as it displayed a sign on its frontage to that effect back in the sixties.
The Cock of Tupsley was a particularly strong single horse (probably a shire) that was stabled in the immediate area of the now pub. Its purpose was to assist horse drawn wagon traffic up the steep hill from Lugg flats, no doubt for a fee! The original route up the hill would have been via the loop road that leads off the crest of the hill opposite the turn to Hampton Dene Road and re joins Ledbury road at the base of of the hill. It was a bit steeper than the " new road"
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