Ye Olde Public Houses

Bears Paw

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Bears Paw Coronation

Bears Paw Hotel, Coronation Day, 1911. This old coaching inn built in 1612, was where mail was collected and despatched before the Post Office came into being. Its name derived from the bear's paw in the coat of arms of the Savage family, Lords of the Manor of Frodsham from the early seventeenth century. Although it's a lion, not a bear!

With the arrival of the railway, it became the Bear's Paw & Railway Hotel until about 1905. The Youd family had it for many years and a cattle market was held on Wednesdays in the yard at the rear.