Belcher & Habgood Ltd

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Belcher & Habgood Ltd, Tower Steam Brewery, Ock Street, Abingdon, Oxfordshire

(Abingdon was historically located in the county of Berkshire, it moved to Oxfordshire in 1974)

Thought to have been founded 1815 and operated by Thomas and John M.Townsend until 1894 when it was acquired by Belcher & Habgood, who brewed at Faringdon.

Production was transferred here. Registered in 1898 and the Tower site probable ceased brewing on acquistion by Morland & Co. Ltd. in 1928 and certainly by 1940 when Morlands were supplying direct to the estate.

Wound up in 1943 and has been demolished.


Belcher & Habgood Ltd, Brewery Court, Market Place, Faringdon, Berkshire.

In 1894, they bought the Tower Brewery in Abingdon and this site was then used as a depot for several years.