Memories of St George Bristol

historybuff, on October 12, 2008, said:

The Nag's Head was a popular name for a public house and it seems likely this hill took its name from one such hostelry. Another suggestion made that it was the practice for carters and hauliers to take hold of their horses' heads to help them up steep hills and slopes such as this, so the name may have orginated from this custom.

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Philip Maby, on February 13, 2009, said:

The public house in the picture is the Lord Raglan, the Nags Head is further up the hill on the right just out of sight.