Homebrew Articles & Features from Hop Shop, Plymouth, UK
Abbey Bridge & River Tamar
The History of Tavistock January 2004
Tavistock or Tavy-stock, meaning stockade settlement on the Tavy, was first recorded as a Saxon settlement in around 800 AD. It stands in a valley on the edge of Dartmoor National Park, just 15 miles away from the sea and close to the Devon Cornwall county border.
In AD 961 Ordgar the Earl of Devon laid the foundations of a Benedictine Abbey very much where the present town centre now sits....
Local Breweries of Old
There has been a brewing connection with Mutley long before the Hop Shop opened. Within one mile of our shop in Dale Road are the sites of two now long closed breweries.
The Victoria Brewery was at the corner of Weston Park Road and Home Park Avenue. This was registered in 1898 and became the second brewery in Plymouth to be taken over by the Burton on Trent brewers Samuel Allsopps Ltd in...