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'White Horse' Public House

The 'White Horse' Public House in Alton, East Hampshire, Hampshire, UK, is a Grade II listed building. It is operated by Craft Union (EI subsidiary) and became part of Enterprise Inns's Craft Union chain in September 2017 with competitively priced beers and no food service.

 

Alton is a market town and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, near the source of the River Wey. It has a population of 17,816 as of the 2011 census.

 

Alton was recorded in the Domesday Survey of 1086 as Aoltone. During the Saxon period Alton was known as Aweltun. The Battle of Alton occurred in the town during the English Civil War. It also has connections with Sweet Fanny Adams and Jane Austen.

 

There have been a number of breweries in Alton since 1763. Coors Brewing Company (among the ten largest brewers in the world) had a brewery in Alton for fifty years, which produced Carling, Grolsch and Worthington. It closed in 2015 because it lost work from Heineken.

 

whatpub.com/pubs/EHA/46/white-horse-alton

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alton,_Hampshire

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