Long Arm & Short Arm inn, Lemsford, Hertfordshire, has a name which has always attracted curiosity with various theories being expressed.


Long Arm & Short Arm inn, Lemsford, Hertfordshire, has a name which has always attracted curiosity with various theories being expressed. One is that it refers to the different lengths of the road leading out of the village from the fork in the road where the inn stands, or that it refers to boards with a long arm denoting deep water and a short arm denoting shallow water in the ford at the river before the bridge was built.


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Location: Lemsford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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