The Definitive Guide to the History of
Pubs and Beerhouses in Coventry

Drinking in an Old English Town

Leg and Cramp, Brade Drive, Walsgrave

Alternative Addresses:	Lismore Croft
These premises have been known by different names during their history:	FROM	TO	NAME
	1984	c2011	Leg and Cramp
	c2011	2013	Chestnut
This was Banks's first pub in the city, opening on the 12th December 1984. The name was a result of a competition in the Coventry Citizen newspaper and was suggested by a theatre nurse at Walsgrave Hospital. In this case a cramp was an item of surgical equipment, although the sign has shown a sportsman's leg with cramp in the past. By 2011 it had been renamed CHESTNUT.
LICENSEES: 1984 Derek & Sheila Faulkner