- Radnorshire Arms
The Radnorshire Arms is a well-preserved
Jacobean building in the Welsh border town ofPresteigne , inPowys , and the hub of its tourist industry. It is unique for an extensive network of subterranean passages and dungeons, used during theEnglish civil war for the torture of Parliamentarian sympathisers byWilliam Vavasour , the Royalist governor ofHereford . It also sits on one of the earliestsewers inWales which is now kept on permanent display for visitors. It is named after the former county ofRadnorshire .The building has a troubled history. During the 18th century it was briefly owned by Sir Henry Vaughan, who was mobbed and lynched on the premises. His dismembered remains are buried beneath a cherry tree in the grounds.
A partial structural collapse in 1927 killed 14 local people. A fire five years later devastated a historic
windmill on its grounds. Bobby Millichamp, the farmhand tried and hanged for causing the blaze, was later proven innocent. His brother, Arthur, was tried and hanged for the same offence in 1936.In recent years, the Radnorshire Arms has been renovated and converted into an upmarket
public house andhotel .External Links
[http://www.radnorshirearmshotel.com/ Randorshire Arms web site]
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