HarryHolt1791 · @HarryHolt1791
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#OnThisDay 8Jan1829 Paddy Flynn defeats Blissett in 38 rounds & 50min in the Parish of #Binfield beyond #Windsor. Flynn was seconded by Harry HOLT, Blissett by Tom Spring (£25 aside)
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Windsor Forest · @windsorforest
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There’s an old inn along the Forest Road. It’s called the Stag and Hounds.
They say it’s more than six hundred years old, and that Henry VIII and Elizabeth I used it as a hunting lodge.
If you believe what they say, the Stag and Hounds marks the exact centre of the old forest.
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