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Paddington has
always adequately provided hospitality for travellers in the form
of local ale houses. The Fountains Abbey opened in 1824 and has
been a popular meeting house from the early days.
Sir Alexander Flemming was a loyal regular to the Fountain's
Abbey. Legend says that it was the mould spores from this pub
that blew Flemming's way which led him to the discovery of
penicillin.
The Fountain's Abbey derived it's name from two seperate sources,
"The Fountains" marks nearby sites of early known
springs and wells which were of great importance to inhabitants.
"Abbey" stems from Westminster "Abbey" which
possessed the manor of Paddington during Saxon times. Hence the
name "The Fountains Abbey"
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