The part close to Manorbier Newton was historically moorland-it was only cleared for farming in WWII . The Ridgeway had an isolated beerhouse in this area, possibly called the Traveller's Rest, which later became Jenny Kibble's pub although the pub no longer exists.
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Involved on the periphery of these issues at the time were two New Zealand National Party politicians, Rob Muldoon ( a future New Zealand Prime Minister ) and John Banks, whose father Archibald was involved in the beerhouse / sly grog milieu and sent his then-teenage son out to provide cleaning services for his father's clients.
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The precursor to the Beerhouse Act was the Alehouse Act 1828 ( 9 Geo . 4 c . 61 ), which established a General Annual Licensing Meeting to be held in every city, town, division, county and riding, for the purposes of granting licences to inns, alehouses and victualling houses to sell exciseable liquors to be drunk on the premises.
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There were also a few shops : a butcher, a post office ( originally run from Holly House then from over the road; now closed ), the Crown Inn ( a shop until 1892, when it was licensed as a beerhouse ) and the former Scranton Stores, which occupied Scranton House, now a private house called Swn-Y-Mynydd.
