Hare & Hounds, Arreton
Overlooking Robin Hill Advenure Park at Down End is the Hare & Hounds, a well known pub on the Isle of Wight.
Renowned for it's food, the pub is popular with both locals and tourists alike and has a children's play area and outside decked seating where you can sit and enjoy the views of Robin hill and beyond.
The Hare & Hounds has a slighly gruesome theme about it which is explained by the various captions dotted around the walls inside.
They tell the story of a local woodcutter of the name, Michael Morey who murdered his 14 year old grandson; James dove in 1736. He had attempted to dispose of his body buy burning it in his cottage in nearby Burnt House Lane but was found out and sent for trial at Winchester. After finding him gulity, he was executed by hanging there in 1737. his body was bought back to the Isle of Wight and hung in a metal cage as a deterrant to others on a gallows which had been erected on a Bronze Age burial mound along side the Downs Road about 100 yards from the pub. Part of the gallows was used as a roof beam in the pub where you can still see it today. May be it's there to stop you 'hanging around at the bar'! The whole story can be seen in our DVD 'An Island Pub Tour, Round 2' in which the Hare & Hounds is featured.
Renowned for it's food, the pub is popular with both locals and tourists alike and has a children's play area and outside decked seating where you can sit and enjoy the views of Robin hill and beyond.
The Hare & Hounds has a slighly gruesome theme about it which is explained by the various captions dotted around the walls inside.
They tell the story of a local woodcutter of the name, Michael Morey who murdered his 14 year old grandson; James dove in 1736. He had attempted to dispose of his body buy burning it in his cottage in nearby Burnt House Lane but was found out and sent for trial at Winchester. After finding him gulity, he was executed by hanging there in 1737. his body was bought back to the Isle of Wight and hung in a metal cage as a deterrant to others on a gallows which had been erected on a Bronze Age burial mound along side the Downs Road about 100 yards from the pub. Part of the gallows was used as a roof beam in the pub where you can still see it today. May be it's there to stop you 'hanging around at the bar'! The whole story can be seen in our DVD 'An Island Pub Tour, Round 2' in which the Hare & Hounds is featured.
