Kegworth Heritage Centre
Kegworth Heritage Plaques - The Fox & Hounds
Packington Hill
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2020s
The Fox and Hounds was located in a large Georgian house at the corner of Packington Hill and Ashby Road. It is mentioned in George Hudson’s history of the village “in 1802 when trade was so bad, a band of rioters marched on Kegworth and demanded an interview with Dr Parkinson (Rector 1789-1830). He heard them, but extending very little sympathy to them, they became enraged, and with much noise and threatenings paraded down High Street, and finished up smashing all the windows in the Fox and Hounds”.
Folklore has it that in the 1920s a tame fox kept by landlord William “Fagin” Thompson was chased by a dog through a blazing fire up the bar room chimney and never seen again. Whatever the truth of this tale, witnesses confirm that there certainly was a tame fox there in those days. Another animal tale is that in the 1969, landlord Tom Beale’s wife Joan kept a male lamb called Lucy who was bought to keep the grass down. Lucy would come into the bar every lunchtime to claim his pint of beer on the house. It seems he also preferred watching the television to grass maintenance.
The pub finally closed in 1971 after which it became a private house.
Folklore has it that in the 1920s a tame fox kept by landlord William “Fagin” Thompson was chased by a dog through a blazing fire up the bar room chimney and never seen again. Whatever the truth of this tale, witnesses confirm that there certainly was a tame fox there in those days. Another animal tale is that in the 1969, landlord Tom Beale’s wife Joan kept a male lamb called Lucy who was bought to keep the grass down. Lucy would come into the bar every lunchtime to claim his pint of beer on the house. It seems he also preferred watching the television to grass maintenance.
The pub finally closed in 1971 after which it became a private house.