Warren House Inn, Moreton Road, Princetown

This 1913 photograph shows a man wearing binoculars, and standing outside the Warren House Inn with his dog. Originally this inn was called New House and stood on the other side of the road. A small warren (or rabbit-farm) was started nearby to provide rabbits for workers in the local mines and for the landlord of the inn. It is from this that the current inn got its name. The Dartmoor poet Jonas Coaker was landlord at this inn in the early nineteenth century, and it is recorded that he had some very rough customers indeed. On one occasion, the crowd of miners drinking there took over the inn, helping themselves to liquor, and the landlord had to hide on the moor for his own safety.