In March 1824 Mr William Matthews of
Cotswold Farm next to the Inn was held up on his home by three highwaymen. They robbed him of a “ONE POUND NOTE of the Stroud Bank and Thirty Shillings in silver”. £20 reward was offered for their capture.

The Ruck family kept the Five Mile for 65 years until landlady Ivy Ruck died in 1995 Ivy’s photograph is kept hanging in the Bar she presided over.

The present owners, Jo Carrier and his father Jon, have carried out major essential repairs to the building without altering the appearance of the Bar and Tap Room. The Snug has been made out of Ivy’s sitting room, and ancient fireplace has been preserved.

300 years ago all pubs were unique in character, and it is because The Five Mile House has never fallen into the hands of a brewery that it’s been preserved. Today you see it much as it was seen by travellers on this road all those years ago.