About the Business
Now a thriving town centre hotel, the Angel is very obviously a coaching inn standing on the corner plot at the end of Regent Street in Leamington. The first reference point we have is an 1813 entry in the licensed victuallers' records which lists Richard Ballard at the Angel Inn. The address of these premises was originally Cross Street, New Town, which was laid out circa 1808-1814 but, circa 1827, around the time Ann Ballard took over the business, it was renamed Regent Street in honour of the Prince Regent who had visited Leamington in September 1819, and the Angel was readdressed 1, Regent Street. The death blow to coaching in Leamington was delivered by the arrival of the railways, firstly the opening of the Leamington Terminus in 1844 [later to become Milverton station] and the completion of the Avenue station in 1851.
Location & Hours
143 Regent Street
