The Greyhound Inn is a large village pub, owned by Everards, with extensive gardens to rear with heated patio area and benches to the front. It has an extensive menu with regular theme nights including curry nights. Live music friday nights plus quizes and casino nights.
Opening Times
12-3, 5.30-11 ; 12-11 Sat & Sun
Food served
12-2.30, 6-9 Mon-Fri; 12-9 Sat & Sun
"The Greyhound Inn was once part of the Burton Hall Estate. It was probably named during the time John Noon was at the Hall (1788–1811). John was an enthusiastic breeder of greyhounds.
The earliest known landlord was Joseph Brown. Joseph didn’t obtain his first licence to sell ale until 1812 but he could have been running the Greyhound for some years by then. He may have been forced into making formal application because Charles Godfrey Mundy, the new owner of the Estate, was a magistrate and noted upholder of the law.
Anthony Hart, who was landlord of the Greyhound from 1841 to 1854 supported his wife and three children from farming 180 acres of land plus and what he made from the inn. He kept two servants and employed a labourer.
Richard Davis Grundy obtained the licence in 1861 but only stayed for a couple of years. He was a farm labourer from Stanley in Derbyshire, and there is no evidence that he had any experience of the licensed trade at all, but he shared the premises with his brother, James, who had been a publican in Loughborough. It seems probable that James was really the landlord but for some reason could not get a licence. After their short time in Burton, Richard returned to the land and James took an inn at Smalley.
The Tuckwood family kept the Greyhound for well over thirty years. William Tuckwood Snr came some time before 1871, when he was already in his sixties with grown-up grandchildren. He died in 1877 and his wife held the licence for a few years before handing over to their son, also William, who remained there until 1904. (There is a family story that John, son of the younger William Tuckwood, refused to allow the body of his favourite horse to be taken to the knacker’s yard, and with the help of friends, against his father’s wishes, he buried it in the garden.)
The landlords that followed William Tuckwood were Samuel Stenson, John Thomas Toon, Leonard Charles Potter, William Edward Kirby and John Wilkinson who were all tenants of the Duke of Somerset, but in 1922 the Duke sold the Greyhound to Samuel Ernest Ward who had just retired from the busy "Trip to Jerusalem" in Nottingham (the Wards had long held the licence of the "Trip to Jerusalem" and it is said that the ghost of Samuel's father still haunts the cellar caves).
Mr Ward sold it on to Shipstones, the Nottingham brewers in 1941, though the Ward family retained the licence until 1945. It now belongs to the Everard chain of licensed houses.
During World War II it was a popular rendezvous for the men and women from RAF Wymeswold and affectionately known as “The Dog”.
It remained a small village pub catering mainly for local people – though attracting a few walkers and cyclists and the occasional coach outing – until the 1980s, when it was extended and modernised, and became the smart eating place we know today."
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