History of the Dog and Fox
"It does a large business and is of many attractions to a better class of publican." c. 1857
The Dog & Fox has been through a lot of transformations over the past centuries. The first mentioning was in a 1617 survey as ‘the sign of my Lords Arms an Inn by Wimbledon Pound’. The name Dog & Fox is from the 18th century when the present building began as a farmhouse. There were extensive out-buildings, coach houses, barns and orchards.
It was used in 1797 for meetings for Volunteers, a forerunner of the Home Guard set up to repel any Napoleonic invasion, and the land behind the Inn was used to drill the men. At the annual fair, booths and stalls stretched from the Dog and Fox to the Rose and Crown, with a theatre and menagerie, but local landowners were anxious about the tone of the neighbourhood and the fair was suppressed in 1840.
In 1816, the pub was assigned, minus the fields, to G. Tritton, the brewer and then in 1834 to Young’s. It was rebuilt in 1869 and set back from the road due to widening of the High Street.
The Dog & Fox has been the pub in the heart and the centre of Wimbledon Village for the past decades and has been refurbished to a very high standard and reopened in December 2006. It most recently went through a refurbishment of the bar and now offers a wider selection of award winning cask ales.
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