The Anchor

Originally three sixteenth century alms houses and then a coaching inn, the Anchor is renowned as being the mecca for all nice cyclists in the late 1870's. Many thousands would pass through Kingston each weekend on the way to Ripley. The Anchor became the favourite resting place of these cyclists with few hundred calling there, The low-ceilinged, many-gabled former alms house appealed to the Metropolitan sense of what was old and quaint, but above all there was the warm and homely hospitality provided by Mrs Dibble and her daughter Annie.