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Date of photo: 2026	Picture source: Top Link Collection
The New Napoleon was situated on South Hill. This pub has now been converted to a residential house.
Prior to the flooding of the valley to create Ogston Reservoir the Napoleon's Home Inn had been in the Fox family for 300 years. It was a relation of the Fox family, Mr George Eliott, who went to France during the Napoleonic Wars, who nicknamed his two sons Napoleon and Nelson. When his son Mark, whose nickname was Napoleon, inherited the inn he painted a sign for it bearing the inscription "Napoleon's Home" and sent it to the inn. Although Mark died before he could take possession of his inheritance the inn retained the name he had given it. Before it was renamed, the inn was called the Traveller's Rest. The inn originally stood further down the B6014 road, on the opposite side, at the edge of Ogston reservoir (nearly opposite Napoleon cottage). When the valley was flooded in 1958 the inn was relocated to its present site and renamed the New Napoleon.
Stretton Handley School (August 2026)
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