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The Prince Of Wales was situated on Baldwins Hill. This pub closed in 2014 and has now been demolished.  This pub was at one point owned by the father of comedian Romesh Ranganathan
From the SussexLive website:
Romesh Ranganathan's late dad owned the now-demolished Prince of Wales pub in East Grinstead. The pub, which used to be on Lingfield Road, inspired the 42-year-old's hit comedy series on Sky, The Reluctant Landlord. When it was still running, his dad let him get some experience practising comedy with a regular slot in the pub. As the students at the Sixth Form he was the head of at Hazelwick, he has told stories in the past of how those who were old enough used to come and see him perform in the pub. When Romesh's dad passed away shortly after he quit his teaching job to go full-time with comedy, something he thinks he did prematurely with hindsight, the pub was handed down to him and his brother. The two struggled with the costs of running the pub as locals started going elsewhere, and discovered there was a lot to sort out with finances as the pub had been heavily mortgaged. The Prince of Wales pub was eventually demolished but Romesh managed to honour his dad's legacy with the TV sitcom, in which he plays Romesh, a character who has inherited a small-town Sussex pub from his late dad and is now navigating life as the landlord with his wife’s help - sounds familiar.
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