15 dated days · 15 dates in the month
March in pub history
15 days in March that somebody wrote down, spread across 15 dates of the month and 976 years — the earliest 17 March 1050, when juliet Tewsley's stone, and the most recent 3 March 2026. 10 of them name a house with a page on this site.
1 March
2024
The Bruce Inn stops trading
The Bruce Inn at Falkland stopped trading on 1 March 2024. CAMRA has carried it as closed long term since, with its future uncertain.
2 March
1950
The George is listed Grade I
The George in Southwark was first listed at Grade I on 2 March 1950. The galleried south range is the one rebuilt in 1677 after the fire of the year before, and Historic England records reused medieval beams and squared stonework of possible medieval origin in the cellar.
3 March
2026
The Angel shuts for works
The Angel at Lavenham, a fifteenth-century timber-framed inn on the market place, closed for works on 3 March 2026 under the estate that bought it in January. CAMRA records reopening expected by mid-December.
6 March
1981
Hole i' the Wa' joins the Scottish list
The Hole i' the Wa', reached through a pend off the Dumfries High Street, was added to the list at category B on 6 March 1981. CAMRA's branch dates the house to 1620; Historic Environment Scotland describes a much-altered inn of the middle of the eighteenth century.
7 March
1997
The Original Rosslyn Inn is listed
The Original Rosslyn Inn at Roslin was designated at category C on 7 March 1997. The inn dates its business from 1837; the register dates the building to 1857 with an addition of 1892, and reads the front as two dwellings amalgamated.
9 March
1960
Two Surrey hall houses listed together
The Crown at Chiddingfold and the White Hart at Witley, a few miles apart on the Surrey weald, were listed on the same day, 9 March 1960 — the Crown at Grade II* on a fourteenth-century wealden frame, the White Hart at Grade II on a frame of the fifteenth.
11 March
1968
Grade I at Norton St Philip
The George at Norton St Philip was listed at Grade I on 11 March 1968. The entry dates the roughly coursed Doulting stone of the ground floor and rear to the fourteenth or fifteenth century, and the oversailing timber frontage above it to the sixteenth, added after a fire.
12 March
1842
The first notice of the Rose and Crown
Western Australia's heritage assessment of the Rose and Crown at Guildford finds the earliest contemporary use of the name in a notice in the Perth Gazette of 12 March 1842. The hotel dates itself to 1841, and the assessor allows that the building may have gone up in 1840 and not been worked as an inn until the year after.
13 March
1387
The landlord at the Red Bear
A Freiburg court document of 13 March 1387 calls Hanmann Bienger the landlord at the Red Bear, which is the earliest record traced that names the house and its trade in the same breath. Zum Roten Bären dates itself to 1120, the year the dukes of Zähringen founded the city.
16 March
1971
CAMRA is founded in a Kerry bar
Four journalists on holiday founded the Campaign for the Revitalisation of Ale in Kruger's Bar at Dunquin, County Kerry, on 16 March 1971. It took the name Campaign for Real Ale two years later.
17 March
1050
Juliet Tewsley's stone
Tradition at the Old Ferry Boat says Juliet Tewsley took her own life on 17 March 1050 after the forester Tom Zoul refused her, and lies under the slab in the floor. No eleventh-century record of her has been found, and the precision of the date is part of why.
22 March
1834
Fire at the City Tavern
Fire took part of Philadelphia's City Tavern on 22 March 1834 and the rest was cleared by 1854. What stands on the corner of Second Street is a reconstruction the National Park Service opened for the bicentennial in 1976.
25 March
1955
Ye Olde Bell is listed
Ye Olde Bell at Hurley was listed at Grade II* on 25 March 1955, and the conference centre attached to it separately in September 1987. The house claims 1135, as a guest house of Hurley Priory; its frame is largely sixteenth- and seventeenth-century.
29 March
1962
The Pickerel is listed
The Pickerel at Cambridge was listed at Grade II on 29 March 1962. The gault brick front is early nineteenth-century; the wing behind it is timber-framed and of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which is where the pub's own dating lives.
31 March
2016
The Brunswick House closes
Toronto's Brunswick House poured its last on the night of 31 March 2016, after 140 years on Bloor Street. A pharmacy took the ground floor.
Every entry above cites the record that carries the day and the month, because a founding year is not an anniversary: a house may have been pouring since 1189 and still appear here only on the day a clerk wrote something down. The whole archive holds 204 such days across 12 months — on this day in pub history opens on whichever date the site was last built for. How a date is weighed is on how we date a pub; the ones that do not survive checking are in myths, checked.
Updated 11 October 2026.