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<big>'''Devenish & Co. Ltd''', ''Hope Square, Weymouth, Dorset''</big>
<big>'''Devenish & Co. Ltd''', ''Hope Square, Weymouth, Dorset''</big>



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Extra Stout
K Bitter Ale
1948
1969
Coeur De Lion, Bath

Devenish & Co. Ltd, Hope Square, Weymouth, Dorset

Devenish & Co. Ltd, Chapel Street, Redruth, Cornwall

Founded in 1742 by the Fowler family and acquired by William Devenish in 1824. Registered in 1889 as J.A.Devenish & Co. Ltd. and name was changed as above 1965.

  • They acquired the adjacent Groves & Sons Ltd, Hope Brewery, Weymouth in 1960 with 115 public houses.

330 tied houses. Brewing ceased at Weymouth November 1985 and was concentrated at Redruth as the Redruth Brewery (1742) Ltd. Brewing ceased at Redruth in 1991.

The tied house estate was acquired by Greenall Whitley & Co. Ltd in 1993.


The Redruth Brewery in 1977. Courtesy Roy Denison


Various views of the brewery


Ordnance Survey map extracts from 1863. "Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland" http://maps.nls.uk/index.html: