An inn along a route followed by horse-drawn coaches, at which horses could be changed.
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To assist the growth in coaches, coaching inns grew up along the route where fresh horses were kept and passengers and drivers could refresh themselves.
‘Many coaching inns were built near to the church because a large proportion of their patrons would have been travelling clergy,’ writes the book's author.
Wimbledon Village Stables has been in existence since the early 1800s when the Dog and Fox public house was a coaching inn and the carriage horses would have been housed at the stables.
The Golden Fleece is a former coaching inn mentioned in the York archives as far back as 1503 and many guests have reported seeing a ghostly woman wandering the corridors and staircases in the small hours.
Its construction was a result of the Queen's decree that there should be a coaching inn within a day's travel of every major centre of population.
It was a far cry from the early 19th century, when the Bridge was a coaching inn for horse-drawn travellers heading north and south on the old Great North Road.