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Matfield Green
Matfield
I have just added this pub to that list but
your help is definitely needed regarding it's history.
As the information is found or sent to me, including photographs, it will
be shown here.
Thanks for your co-operation.
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South Eastern Gazette, 14 August, 1860.
Thomas Hanbury, of the "Cricketers" beer-house, Matfleld-green,
Brenchley, was also charged with a like offence (with having his
house open for the sale of beer) on the 22nd July. Mr. Simpson
appeared for the defendant. Supt. Dance related an account of his
visit to the house shortly before 12 o’clock on the Sunday morning,
when he found four persons in the back premises, and on the kitchen
mantel-piece a pint pot partly full of beer, which the defendant
said he had drawn for a man who had been there to shave him.
The Bench dismissed the case.
The defendant in the last case appealed against a poor-rate made by
the overseers of Brenchley, on the 23rd April last.
Mr. Simpson supported the appellant; Mr. Gorham for the respondent.
The premises in question, which are let at an annual rental of £17
16s., had been reduced, in a recent re-valuation of the parish, to
£9. The present appeal was for the purpose of having the rate
increased.
Mr. Charlton, valuer, of Tunbridge, fixed the amount of rating at
£12, and Mr. Montier, of Tunbridge Wells, at £11, and the Bench
increased it to £12 10s.
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Maidstone Telegraph, Rochester and Chatham Gazette, Saturday 18th August 1860.
Thomas Hanbury, of the "Cricketers" Beer House, Matfield Green,
Brenchley, was also charged with a like offence
(with having his house open or for the sale of
beer on Sunday morning) on the 23rd July. Mr.
Simpson appeared for the defendant.
Superintendent Dance related an
account of his visit to the house shortly before 12 o'clock on Sunday
morning, when he found four persons in the back premises, and on the
kitchen mantelpiece a pint pot partly filled with beer, which the
defendant said he had drawn for man who had been there to shave him.
The Bench dismiss the case.
The defendant in the last case appealed against a poor rate made by the
overseers of Brenchley, on the 23rd April last.
Mr. Simpson supported the appellant; Mr. Gorham for the correspondent.
The premises in question, which are let at an annual rental of £17 16s.,
had been reduced, in a recent revaluation of the parish, to £9. The
present appeal was for the purpose of having the rate increased.
Mr. Cheriton, valuer, of Tunbridge, fixed the amount of rating at £12,
and Mr. Montier, of Tunbridge Wells, at £11, and the Bench increased it
to £12 10s.
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Robert Marshall says the following:- "I think this may have been a
reference to the "Wheelwrights,"
or possibly the "Star" as these have
been the haunt of the local cricket team for many many years. Certainly,
there has never been another pub around the green. I'm sure this is a
reference to the "Wheelwrights."
I say it can't be the "Star" as the
Wenham family were licensees there in the 1860s. I will probably be deleting
this page once I have Thomas Hanbury's location identified, less of course
the pub changed name.
LICENSEE LIST
HANBURY Thomas 1860-61+ (also carrier age 40 in 1861 )
https://pubwiki.co.uk/CricketersArms.shtml
Census
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