A sentimental & practical guide to Amesbury and Stonehenge
Part 5
TARIFF OF PRICES: Per day. _s._ _d._ Sitting-rooms from 5 0 Bedrooms from 2 6 Per head. Plain breakfast 2 0 Breakfast with chop or steak 2 6 ,, fish, ham and eggs 3 0 LUNCHEONS: Bread and cheese 0 9 Sandwich 1 0 Light soups 1 0 Cold meat 2 6 DINNERS: Soup and chop, vegetables, and cheese 3 6 With either soup or fish and entrée 4 0 Ditto with sweets 4 6 TEAS: Plain 1 6 With eggs 2 0 Single cup of tea 0 6 Servants’ board, 5_s._ per day.
Gentlemen’s coffee-room, ladies’ drawing-room, smoking and billiard-room.
Visitors are requested, if possible, to write to the Manager for accommodation.
Table d’Hôte, Breakfasts, 3_s._; Luncheons, 2_s._ 6_d._; Dinners, 5_s._ These meals run for two hours, and are served at separate tables.
CATHEDRAL HOTEL.
Per day. Bedrooms from 2 6 Sitting-rooms 3 6 BREAKFASTS OR TEAS: Per head. Plain 1 3 With eggs 1 6 With meat or fish 2 6 DINNERS: From 3_s._ per head. Cold baths 0 6 Hot 1 0 Servants’ board, 5_s._ per day.
Carriages with experienced drivers for Stonehenge and other places of interest.
RED LION HOTEL, SALISBURY. (_Headquarters of the Cyclists’ Touring Club_.)
APARTMENTS: s. d. Bedrooms per day 2 6 Double bedroom 4 0 Baths in bathroom 1 0 Baths in bedroom 0 6 BREAKFAST: Per head. Plain 1 3 With eggs 1 9 With fish, steak, ham and eggs 2 6 LUNCHEONS: Soup 1 0 Sandwiches 0 6 Cold joint, cheese and salad 2 0 Ditto, sweets 2 6 Chop and vegetables 2 0 DINNERS: Joint and vegetable 2 6 Ditto, with sweets 3 0 Ditto, soup or fish, joint, and sweets 3 6 TEAS: Cup of tea or coffee 0 6 Teas with eggs, &c. same as breakfast. Servants’ board per day, 5s. Bedroom, 1_s._ 6_d._
Excellent Chemists: Messrs. Read & Orchard, Market Place, Salisbury.
Sly, Watch-maker, Market Place.
Good Booksellers: Brown, Canal, & Simmonds, High Street.
Messrs. Pinckney, Bankers, Market Place.
AMESBURY.
“Queensberry House”—Boarding House, Tea and Luncheon F. Tucker. Room “Ivy Dene”—Private Hotel A. Fleming. “The Phœnix”—Temperance House E. Cockle. Drapery and Millinery F. Tucker. Drapery and Fancy Bazaar B. Hale.
THE GEORGE INN.
Good flys, one and two horses, can be procured here, also bedrooms and sitting-rooms, luncheons, and dinners, and teas.
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FOOTNOTES.
{10} Aurelius Ambrosius succeeded to the kingdom of Britain on the death of Vortigern in the year 465; he was of Roman extraction, though educated in Britain.
{18} The Avon is the beloved haunt of thousands of wild duck, many herons, kingfishers, &c.
{24} Trilithon, a monument (or part of a monument) consisting of three large stones.
{43} “Nature,” vol. 64, p. 602.
{52} This refers to the Committee of the County Council appointed to hear the complaint against the enclosure of Stonehenge, and it met early in 1902.