DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

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PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1848-

Crown Inn

Latest ????

London Road

Shorne

Crown painting 1892

Above painting by E Youseman 1892.

Map of Shorne 1895

Above map from 1895, printed 1898 showing the location of the "Crown Inn" magenta, and the "Old Beefsteak House," cyan.

Crown location 2009

The Google image 2009. The dirt track to the right being Crown Lane.

 

Now (2022) situated at the corner of Crown Lane and the Rochester Road and now housed by the Crown Garage (S & G Motors).

 

From the Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser, Tuesday 4 April 1848.

Kent.

Valuable freehold Enclosures of Arable, Meadow, Orchard and Fruit Plantation, Public House, Beer Shop, Building Ground, Cottages, &c. situated in the parish of Higham, Shorne, Chalk, Meopham, Southfleet, Ryarsh and Ash.

Messrs. Hoggarts, Norton and Oakley, have received instructions to offer for sale, at the "New Inn," Gravesend, on Wednesday, 31st May, at 1 for 2 precisely, in lots.

The following desirable freehold properties, ......

Two parcels of the most productive Arable and Orchard land, opposite to the "Crown Inn," at Shorne; a parcel of Woodlands, situated below the Ridgeway, at Shorne; ......

 

LICENSEE LIST

WHATMAN Charles 1858-61+ (also farmer age 59 in 1861Census)

FROY Rachel 1881+ (widow age 43 in 1881Census)

SIMPSON William 1894 Electoral Register

HICKSON Daniel 1903+ Kelly's 1903

BRIDLAND Henry 1913+

GRIFFIN Robert 1918+

https://pubwiki.co.uk/CrownInn.shtml

 

Kelly's 1903From the Kelly's Directory 1903

CensusCensus

Electoral RegisterElectoral Register

 

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