The Llandoger Trow
The Llandoger Trow is a pub on the south side of King Street and one of Bristol's oldest inns.
The building was constructed around 1664 as a row of five terraced houses, three of which now form the pub. It is uncertain when it first became an inn but the property appears to have been owned by a Captain Hawkin's and he may have named it after his ship. King Street, backs onto Welsh Back, the quay which received ships from the Severn, and which may help explain the Llandoger's name. A 'trow' was a flat-bottomed barge, and Llandogo is a village in south Wales upstream on the River Wye, where trows were once built.
It has been said that this is where Daniel Defoe met Alexander Selkirk, his inspiration for Robinson Crusoe and it also rumoured to have been the basis of 'The Admiral Benbow' in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.
Many famous people have frequented the inn including actors, actresses and playwrights employed at the Theatre Royal opposite.
The building was constructed around 1664 as a row of five terraced houses, three of which now form the pub. It is uncertain when it first became an inn but the property appears to have been owned by a Captain Hawkin's and he may have named it after his ship. King Street, backs onto Welsh Back, the quay which received ships from the Severn, and which may help explain the Llandoger's name. A 'trow' was a flat-bottomed barge, and Llandogo is a village in south Wales upstream on the River Wye, where trows were once built.
It has been said that this is where Daniel Defoe met Alexander Selkirk, his inspiration for Robinson Crusoe and it also rumoured to have been the basis of 'The Admiral Benbow' in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.
Many famous people have frequented the inn including actors, actresses and playwrights employed at the Theatre Royal opposite.