Meynell Ingram Arms, Hoar Cross

Former farmhouse dating back to the early 16th-century when it was part of the Earl of Shrewsbury's estate. Converted into a pub (18th-century?). Originally the Shoulder of Mutton, but renamed circa 1860 after the Meynell Ingram family who owned nearby Hoar Cross Hall (now a health spa). Little information on early owners, but it appears to have been bought in 1898 by the Peoples’ Refreshment House Association (founded 1896; bought by Charrington’s in 1962). Came into the Meynell Ingram family’s hands at some stage: the pub was sold in the mid-1990s by Freddie Meynell to Roger Mercer (local businessman/farmer), who sold it to Mercury Inns in 2007. The latter went into administration in 2009; seems to have been run by an associated company Quicksilver for the Meynell Pub Company, which went into administration in late 2012. Bought privately in March 2013, radically refurbished at great expense and re-opened in October 2013, but then closed abruptly in October 2014. Bought by Berkeley Inns November 2018, refurbished again, and re-opened May 2019. Subsequently sold to the RedCat Pub Company in July 2022.