Mainly went to Wareham (Hardy's 'Anglebury') to get a look at the Red Lion hotel/pub (old coaching inn) which is "still there today at the central crossroads, as located in The Hand of Ethelberta" (Margaret Marande, 'The Hardy Way' page 52).
Guess that the gate below is where the teams of horses used to enter (to be stabled) and exit the Red Lion courtyard.
Inside, the Red Lion showed a few signs of its coaching inn history:
And the staircase leading up to the hotel rooms had a bit of an old-worldly feel:
Below is the courtyard gate from the inside where I guess the teams of stabled houses used to exit The Red Lion after a good night's rest:
Yeah, at the Red Lion, I got a genuine echo of the old coaching inns that (I've just read on the Internet) were mainly in use between the mid-17th and mid-19th centuries.
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