MAY 2025
EXCITING NEWS!
We've been shortlisted for this years 'Best Community Project or Group' Award at the Stroud News & Journal Awards.
This is a fantastic achievement, reflecting the hard work of all our amazing volunteers and our interim management committee, who have been working tirelessly on our plans to reopen the Rose and Crown Inn as a community pub.
The Rose & Crown Inn
Our Vision
To create a welcoming pub at the heart of our village to meet, socialise and connect with others - owned by and for the benefit of the community.
What we are doing and why
Our Mission
To purchase the only pub in our village, the Rose & Crown Inn, and transform it into a thriving community business that will benefit the residents of Nympsfield and the surrounding villages, as well as attracting visitors from farther afield to use its restaurant and accommodation.
We aim to convert part of the building into a community café and village shop ensuring that our pub provides much-needed services and amenities for all sections of the community in this relatively isolated rural village.
Impact
Reopening the Rose & Crown Inn as a community-owned pub will reinvigorate our village by providing local groups, friends, and neighbours with a convivial hub to meet and socialise throughout the day. By appealing to all sections of the community the pub will improve social cohesion and reduce social isolation as well as provide residents with training and employment opportunities; and as a thriving profitable enterprise the pub has the potential to provide essential funding to other community groups in Nympsfield. When we achieve these outcomes, we know that our project has succeeded.
History of the Rose & Crown Inn
The earliest mention of this historic building is in 1684, when a lease in which the building where the Rose and Crown now is, and its adjoining meadow, were rented for £23 per annum,
Originally known The Ducie Arms, our village pub changed it's name to the Rose and Crown around 1890's.
An advertisement in Symonds 1907 directory reads:
‘First class house for boarding residents in the most picturesque part of Gloucestershire. Excellent catering and capital accommodation for visitors, picnic parties, cyclists, etc. An ideal spot to spend a weekend. Good stabling. Prop. J. Ford.’
The Ownership of the pub passed through Stroud Brewery and on to Whitebread brewery, before the freehold was bought in the 1980's.
Sadly, last orders were called on the Rose & Crown Inn early 2023.
Nympsfield Community Pub Limited was incorporated in April 2024 as a community benefit society to acquire the Rose & Crown Inn as a community-owned pub for the benefit of the community.
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