The Antelope - High Street, Poole, Dorset, UK
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One of the many pubs in Poole, The Antelope can be found on The Quay.
Waymark Code: WM9ZZJ
Location: South West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 10/24/2010
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This modern sign shows an antelope on a white background. The pub is an Old English Inn.
Part of the Cockle Trail, Poole Museum includes this extract on their website about The Antelope:
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'The Antelope (76) has a 500 year history. It was a coaching Inn with its own horses, coaches, smithy and even funeral vehicles, and at one stage even brewed its own beer. In the 19th Century coaches left here for Bristol, Bath and London. This building also shows evidence of its earlier origins with a massive stone fireplace in the bar and wooden beams.'
The official website elaborates further:
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'The Antelope Hotel Poole near Bournmouth is situated on the Quay at Poole Harbour within easy each of the busy seaside resort of Bournemouth via the A35. The Antelope Hotel has a 500+ year history, arguably the oldest inn in Poole. The deposed French King Charles X was once a guest, and it was regularly used during WWII by the Special Operations Executive, which had a ship in Poole Harbour. The Antelope Hotel is a famous old coaching house in the High Street of Poole and has been a popular meeting place through the centuries. It still retains part of its original 15th century building. Situated so conveniently for Poole Quay, the hotel was used by the horse coaches as a stop off for Lymington, Southampton, Bath, Bristol, Weymouth and London.'