145 Chiswick High Road, W4 2DT (020 8994 0360)
This is a venerable old Chiswick pub which was called simply The Pack Horse from 1698 until 1811and has frequently been confused with the Old Pack Horse (formerly the West Country Packhorse). A trader’s token (these were used instead of coins) dating to 1669 has been found which mentions `Ye Pack Hors in Turnam Greene’. In 1698 some of the people who were plotting to assassinate King William III in Wellesley Road met in this pub. In 1725 when the highwayman, Jonathan Wild was on trial he called, as a witness, Hays of the Pack Horse, Turnham Green and it was the meeting place of the Brentford Turnpike Trust between 1764 and 1776. It was rebuilt in the 1920s and now belongs to the Spirit Group.
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