The Dewdrop Inn is believed to have been on the eastern side of Townsend Street, not far from the Royal Foresters. Alan Jones has done some research and he told me: “I have narrrowed the location of the Dewdrop Inn in Townsend Street down to within one or two houses. In the 1903 Built-Leonard Directory it lists properties in street order, and it shows that the Dewdrop Inn was four premises away from the Forester Arms Inn (Royal Foresters) heading towards Gloucester Road. The Dewdrop Inn would therefore be at either the current 41 Townsend Street, or perhaps where the more modern set back pair of houses are right next door.
Joseph Simmonds was the licensee, and probably owner, of the Dewdrop Inn in 1870. In the 1891 licensing book of Gloucestershire pubs the owner of the Dewdrop is accredited to representatives of Joseph Simmonds. The pub was leased to the local Cheltenham Original Brewery and had an annual rateable value of £15.5s.0d. and was unchanged twelve years later in 1903. The Cheltenham Brewery were the outright owners of the Dewdrop Inn in 1903. It was licensed as a beer house.
Above research and information courtesy Martin Edwards
Landlords at the Dewdrop Inn include:
1870,1878 J. Simmonds
1885 Mrs Elizabeth Boyce
1891 George Bullock
1903 Frederick Lewis