Hostelries, Hospitals, and Hotels all offer shelter. The Good Samaritan took the injured man to an inn. During the Civil War, 1642-6, The Bell and other inns nursed and buried casualties at parish expense. When the King reinforced bridge defences, Wheatley homes and inns quartered soldiers for a quartermaster’s billet (chitty), redeemable after victory.
Continue readingRecollections of the past from this Oxfordshire village
