• Brief History of the Corner Cupboard in Winchcombe
The Corner Cupboard Inn was built in c.1550 as a farmhouse and it subsequently became an Inn. There are reports of The Inn being haunted by the ghost of a 12 year old girl visitors have heard running across the Floor Boards above the Bar.
At the front of the Inn is a protruding buttress and a bust of Benjamin Disraeli (Victorian Prime Minister and statesman from 1847 until his death in 1881) above the front door.
In Saxon times Winchcombe was the most important town in the Cotswold region, a part of the Kingdom of Mercia. The right to mint coins is a measure of the economic and administrative importance of a town, and in Saxon times there were mints in Gloucester, Bristol, Berkeley and Winchcombe.