One thing I find fascinating about the series is how a something small can repeatedly show up in different plotlines. For instance the Cinnamon Wind turns up in Qarth/Braavos/Oldtown. In this post I would like to discuss a location that is frequented numerous times: The Inn at the Crossroads.

POVs that take place at the Inn at the Crossroads

The Inn at the Crossroads is located at the junction where the north-south Kingsroad meets the east running River road to the Westerlands and the east running High Road to the Vale.

It is also known as the Crossroads Inn and is sometimes called the Old Inn and was formerly named the Two Crowns, the Bellringer Inn, the Clanking Dragon, and the River Inn.

The King's Party

Returning to King's Landing, the King's party stays at the inn in AGOT, Sansa I

Outside, she stood for a moment amidst the shouts and curses and the creak of wooden wheels as the men broke down the tents and pavilions and loaded the wagons for another day's march. The inn was a sprawling three-story structure of pale stone, the biggest that Sansa had ever seen, but even so, it had accommodations for less than a third of the king's party, which had swollen to more than four hundred with the addition of her father's household and the freeriders who had joined them on the road. -AGOT, Sansa I

Catelyn's Abduction of Tyrion

It was near dark when they reached it, at the crossroads north of the great confluence of the Trident. Masha Heddle was fatter and greyer than Catelyn remembered, still chewing her sourleaf, but she gave them only the most cursory of looks, with nary a hint of her ghastly red smile. "Two rooms at the top of the stair, that's all there is," she said, chewing all the while. "They're under the bell tower, you won't be missing meals, though there's some thinks it too noisy. Can't be helped. We're full up, or near as makes no matter. It's those rooms or the road." -ACOK, Catelyn V

and:

"Winterfell it is, then," he said instead. That was a long ride, as he could well attest, having just ridden it the other way. So many things could happen along the way. "My father will wonder what has become of me," he added, catching the eye of the swordsman who'd offered to yield up his room. "He'll pay a handsome reward to any man who brings him word of what happened here today." Lord Tywin would do no such thing, of course, but Tyrion would make up for it if he won free.

Ser Rodrik glanced at his lady, his look worried, as well it might be. "His men come with him," the old knight announced. "And we'll thank the rest of you to stay quiet about what you've seen here." -AGOT, Tyrion IV

The Lannister Camp (pre Battle on the Green Fork)

Tyrion brings his clansmen from the Mountains of the Moon down to the Lannister Camp where he notes his father his hanged Masha Heddle:

The inn and its stables were much as he remembered, though little more than tumbled stones and blackened foundations remained where the rest of the village had stood. A gibbet had been erected in the yard, and the body that swung there was covered with ravens. At Tyrion's approach they took to the air, squawking and flapping their black wings. He dismounted and glanced up at what remained of the corpse. The birds had eaten her lips and eyes and most of her cheeks, baring her stained red teeth in a hideous smile. "A room, a meal, and a flagon of wine, that was all I asked," he reminded her with a sigh of reproach. -AGOT, Tyrion VII

and:

Where will I find my lord father?"

"He has taken the inn at the crossroads for his quarters."

Tyrion laughed. The inn at the crossroads! Perhaps the gods were just after all. "I will see him at once."

The Lannister Camp (post Battle of the Green Fork)

After the Lannisters win the battle they realize the trap Robb set for them and try to race back south:

After the hardships of the long relentless drive south, the prospect of even a single night in an inn had cheered Tyrion mightily … though he rather wished it had not been this inn again, with all its memories. His father had set a grueling pace, and it had taken its toll. Men wounded in the battle kept up as best they could or were abandoned to fend for themselves. Every morning they left a few more by the roadside, men who went to sleep never to wake. Every afternoon a few more collapsed along the way. And every evening a few more deserted, stealing off into the dusk. Tyrion had been half-tempted to go with them. -AGOT, Tyrion IX

Fight between Sandor Clegane and The Tickler/Polliver

After the Hound kidnaps Arya from the Brotherhood with Banners he tries to go to the Twins, as well as to the Vale to ransom her before coming back to the Riverlands. They decide to stay at Crossroads Inn:

Outside the inn on a weathered gibbet, a woman's bones were twisting and rattling at every gust of wind.

I know this inn. There hadn't been a gibbet outside the door when she had slept here with her sister Sansa under the watchful eye of Septa Mordane, though. "We don't want to go in," Arya decided suddenly, "there might be ghosts."-ASOS, Arya III

and:

"Make up your mind," said Jaime. "Who has the command here? Did Ser Gregor name a castellan?"

"Polliver," another man said, "only the Hound killed him, m'lord. Him and the Tickler both, and that Sarsfield boy." -AFFC, Jaime III

If interested: Fate of the Mountain's Men & Arya Stark: The Key to Jaime/Brienne & Lady Stoneheart

Brienne's Fight w/ Rorge/Biter

While traveling with Pod, Ser Hyle and Septon Meribald, Brienne and party stay at the Inn at the Crossroads which is now overrun with orphans:

By any name the inn was large, rising three stories above the muddy roads, its walls and turrets and chimneys made of fine white stone that glimmered pale and ghostly against the grey sky. Its south wing had been built upon heavy wooden pilings above a cracked and sunken expanse of weeds and dead brown grass. A thatch-roofed stable and a bell tower were attached to the north side. The whole sprawl was surrounded by a low wall of broken white stones overgrown by moss.

and:

The common room was crawling with children. Brienne tried to count them, but they would not stand still even for an instant, so she counted some of them twice or thrice and others not at all, until she finally gave it up. They had pushed the tables together in three long rows, and the older boys were wrestling benches from the back. Older here meant ten or twelve. Gendry was the closest thing to a man grown, but it was Willow shouting all the orders, as if she were a queen in her castle and the other children were no more than servants. -AFFC, Brienne VII

The future?

"This is the inn where Sandor Clegane killed three of his brother's men," she reminded him.

"'Tis that," Hunt agreed, "but who is to say that they were the first to die here . . . or that they'll be the last." -AFFC, Brienn VI

TLDR: A list of all the chapters that "occur" at the Inn at the Crossroads. Just due to its location I would expect another chapter or two to take place here as well.