{"id":1507,"date":"2026-10-05T20:36:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T20:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock789.top\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2026-10-05T20:36:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T20:36:47","slug":"19th-century-oxfordshire-pub-reopens-under-new-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock789.top\/?p=1507","title":{"rendered":"19th-century Oxfordshire pub reopens under new name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21369692\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n  The Duck, on Duke Street in Henley, reopened on Thursday after closing suddenly in September 2025.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It is not the first time the venue has had a name change, with the original pub named the Beer Tree closing in October 2013.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The pub was then converted into a Mexican restaurant, Pachangas, which was opened from April 2014 until it&#8217;s closure in 2023.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: Sir Ranulph Fiennes reportedly wrote will before Everest bid amid divorce plans\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Staff at The Duke pub in Henley in 2025 (Image: The Duke pub)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  New owners then converted it back to a pub calling it The Duke in January 2025, before its sudden closure in September 2025.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The building is Grade-II listed and is believed to have been built in the early 19th-century, according to CAMRA.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The new venture is part of the new group Symposium Pubs, led by former Rosa\u2019s Thai operations head Jonny Bramwell.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Duck in Henley (Image: The Duck)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In an Instagram post, Mr Bramwell described the project as \u201cmaybe the worst kept secret ever,\u201d adding that after he took on The Three Horseshoes in the town&#8217;s Reading Road in May, the team is now preparing to launch The Duck, just a short walk away.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Speaking to the Morning Advertiser ahead of the reopening, Mr Bramwell explained that the new offer will move away from a high?end, restaurant?led approach and instead position itself as an accessible, premium high?street pub.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  While some drinkers may wonder if The Duck is a less historic name than The Duke, the pub&#8217;s new name actually references the street&#8217;s former name, Duck Street.\n<\/p>\n<p>#19thcentury #Oxfordshire #pub #reopens<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Duck, on Duke Street in Henley, reopened on Thursday after closing suddenly in September 2025. It is not the first time the venue has had a name change, with&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock789.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock789.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock789.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock789.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock789.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock789.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock789.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock789.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock789.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}