68 Cheap Street (site), Newbury
1 nightlife identities recorded at this site
Street
Cheap Street
Postcode
RG14 5DJ
Identities
1
Latest
Sun
Timeline
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Closed Pubs: The Sun Hotel was situated on 73 Cheap Street, Newbury. PubWiki directories index the same Sun at 68 Cheap Street. Closed Pubs / HER also assign 73 Cheap Street to neighbouring Axe & Compass — treat as adjacent places (joint PubWiki photo), not a merge. Keep the PubExplorer place on the PubWiki 68 identity.
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PubWiki indexes the Sun at 68 Cheap Street, Newbury (also 1869 Kelly's "Sun commercial Inn, St Marys hill, Cheap street"). Primary directory address for this place; Closed Pubs' 73 Cheap Street is recorded as an address variance for the same Sun Hotel identity.
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Closed Pubs: The Sun Hotel on Cheap Street has now been demolished. No demolition year on that page — do not invent one. Distinct from Axe & Compass demolition in the 1960s for the A339 Relief Road (separate Closed Pubs / HER record).
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Brewery History Society Usher's Wiltshire Brewery pubs-in-Berkshire list includes Sun Hotel, Cheap Street, Newbury. Estate attribution only — no year or street number on that list; corroborates the Sun Hotel aka on Cheap Street.
probable evidence
Sun recorded in 1796 with William Arnold (Berkshire Directory). — PubWiki secondary transcription. Existence evidence only; do not treat as an opening date.
Sun commercial Inn, St Marys hill, Cheap street recorded in 1869 with Robert Johnston (Kelly's Directory). — PubWiki secondary transcription. Same Cheap Street / St Mary's Hill Sun as the 68 Cheap Street directory identity.
Sun at 68 Cheap Street recorded in PubWiki transcription of Kelly's Directory of Berkshire 1899 (Francis Evans). Existence observation only — same Cheap Street Sun / Sun Hotel as Closed Pubs. Do not infer opening or closing date.
probable evidence
Sun at 68 Cheap Street recorded in PubWiki's Newbury 1911 census summary (Evans, public house). Treat as a 1911 existence observation; same Cheap Street Sun / Sun Hotel as Closed Pubs. Do not infer an opening date.
probable evidence
Sun recorded in 1931 with Edwd Jas Payne (Kelly's Directory). — PubWiki secondary transcription. Latest directory row on the PubWiki Sun page; not a closing date.
Closed Pubs contact Mark Knapp remembers visiting the Sun Hotel with parents on Saturday mornings in the 1950s (room at the back used by Order of Buffalos; courtyard at the front). Treat as circa-1950s existence evidence only — not an opening or closing date.
probable evidence
Building
Former Sun / Sun Hotel on Cheap Street, Newbury — south end toward St Mary's Hill, adjacent to the Axe & Compass. PubWiki directories index 68 Cheap Street (1869 also "Sun commercial Inn, St Marys hill, Cheap street"). Closed Pubs names it Sun Hotel at 73 Cheap Street and states it has been demolished (no demolition year). Closed Pubs / HER also place Axe & Compass at 73 Cheap Street (place-h-73-cheap-street-axe-and-compasses) — neighbouring premises photographed together as "Axe & Compasses & The Sun Hotel"; do not merge. Distinct from East Ilsley Sun (place-ei-sun) and from both Newbury Rising Suns. Mark Knapp contact memory places visits in the 1950s (existence only). No sourced open or close year — do not invent one. Pin: address-based on PubWiki 68 Cheap Street geocode (lng -1.32130, lat 51.39876; modern postcode area RG14 5DJ). Sources: https://www.closedpubs.co.uk/berkshire/newbury_sun.html ; https://pubwiki.co.uk/Berkshire/Newbury/Sun.shtml ; https://www.closedpubs.co.uk/berkshire/newbury_axecompass.html
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Sources
- Closed Pubs - Sun Hotel, 73 Cheap Street, Newbury
Closed Pubs Project