Edward Jenner Heritage Trail - Location 4
White Hart Court, 6 & 8 High Street
Formerly an old coaching inn, although not on any of the main stagecoach routes, known as the White Hart. Even earlier it was the Ivy Bush, possibly on the site of an ancient inn or wine tavern, sometime called the Garden of St John of Jerusalem and dating back to around 1639.
In the rear cobbled courtyard can still be seen some of the buildings which would have been stables and storage for horses, fodder, and tack. Although it was not on the intercity mail routes, there would have been a constant demand for transport by horse or carriage for connections to the main stagecoach stops or to other parts of the county and surrounding area.
This part of the High Street and the adjoining buildings are amongst the oldest in Berkeley and the White Hart being a coaching inn, it’s likely that Jenner would have arrived and departed from here when he made his journeys to London in 1770 to begin his medical training at St George’s Hospital. Both his brother’s house further down High Street, where he lived for some time, and the Chantry, his home for 38 years, are within walking distance. He would undoubtedly have walked past on the High Street regularly and ridden this way on his visits to patients in his medical practice far flung around Gloucestershire.
The next location is in through the entrance to White Hart Court, on the left-hand side of the cobbled yard above the Tomato Jacks art studio.
In the rear cobbled courtyard can still be seen some of the buildings which would have been stables and storage for horses, fodder, and tack. Although it was not on the intercity mail routes, there would have been a constant demand for transport by horse or carriage for connections to the main stagecoach stops or to other parts of the county and surrounding area.
This part of the High Street and the adjoining buildings are amongst the oldest in Berkeley and the White Hart being a coaching inn, it’s likely that Jenner would have arrived and departed from here when he made his journeys to London in 1770 to begin his medical training at St George’s Hospital. Both his brother’s house further down High Street, where he lived for some time, and the Chantry, his home for 38 years, are within walking distance. He would undoubtedly have walked past on the High Street regularly and ridden this way on his visits to patients in his medical practice far flung around Gloucestershire.
The next location is in through the entrance to White Hart Court, on the left-hand side of the cobbled yard above the Tomato Jacks art studio.