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Old Crown Inn

pub in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, UK

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 11, 2024
Entity authorityQ20878189 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Old Crown Inn was a grade II listed pub house at 81 and 83 Westgate Street, Gloucester.

The pub closed in early 2024.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Old Crown Inn” is pub in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, UK. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Crown, Gloucester and Gloucestershire, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2024—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Crown, Gloucester and Gloucestershire is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “pub in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, UK” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 11, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q20878189. Authority coordinates are 51.867, -2.249. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2024.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  • Locating named sources
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Old Crown Inn”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Old Crown Inn primary sources, Old Crown Inn archive and Crown research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Old Crown Inn”?
  2. What terminology or title could unlock a more precise catalogue search?
  3. Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Old Crown Inn” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.