Pub London's pubs had closed. The closures have been ascribed to factors such as changing tastes, rise in the cost of beer due to applied taxes and the increase in the Muslim population. Inns and taverns feature throughout English literature and poetry, from The Tabard Inn in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" onwards. The highwayman Dick Turpin used the Swan Inn at Woughton-on-the-Green in Buckinghamshire as his base. Jamaica Inn near Bolventor in Cornwall gave its name to a 1936 novel by Daphne du Maurier and a 1939 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. In the 1920s John Fothergill (1876–1957) was the innkeeper of
Seaside Inn in continuous operation by the Gooch family since its inception and as of 2018 is owned by the twelfth-generation descendants. The early Gooch family history was chronicled in the 1929 novel "Arundel" by American author Kenneth Roberts. Additionally, current owner Trish Mason has written a work of non-fiction entitled "The Seaside House: Maine Innkeepers" which tells the complete history of the family and running of the inn. The inn was recognised by New England's "Yankee Magazine" as the Maine lodging with the "Best Family Ties" in 2009. Seaside Inn The Seaside Inn (formerly the Seaside Inn & Cottages) is an