PLOUGH Pub of Eynsford

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Page Updated:- Thursday, 16 October, 2025.

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PUBLIC HOUSES

Paul Skelton

Earliest 1818-

Plough

Open 2025+

24 Riverside

Eynsford

01322 862281

https://www.theploughinneynsford.co.uk/

https://whatpub.com/plough

Above engraving 1800s, showing some resemblance to the cottages of Plough Yard and the Tudor House. It is possible that this was the original inn which was later enlarged on it's present site.

Above postcard, circa 1903, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.

Above photo, date unknown.

Above postcard, date unknown.

Above photo, date unknown.

Above postcard, circa 1917, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.

Plough in 1930. Certainly not Otford though.

Above painting, circa 1930.

Above photo, 1934.

Above postcard, circa 1937. Until 1928, the Plough had been a tied house within the estate of Frederick Leney's Phoenix Brewery, Wateringbury but by the time this photograph was taken, former Leney's pubs were being liveried and signed as Whitbread houses. Kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.

Above photo, date unknown.

Above photo, circa 1960s.

Above photo, 19th April 1957.

Above photo, 1961.

Above photo, 1967.

Above advert, 1967.

Above photo, date unknown.

Above photo, 1973, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.

Above photo 1975.

Above photo 2006 by Dave Patten Creative Commons Licence.

Above photo 2011 by Peter Trimming Creative Commons Licence.

Above photo, July 2013, kindly submitted by Joe Neary.

Above photo 2024.

Above photo 2025.

Above sign left, 1973, sign right April 1994.

With thanks from Brian Curtis www.innsignsociety.com.

Awaiting picture of Whitbread sign. If anyone should have an image please email me, address at bottom.

Above aluminium card issued 1950. Sign series 2 number 49.

Above matchbox, 1985, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.

A document from the Lullingstone Estate dated 1818 refers to the 'Plow Ale House in Eynsford'. This was the first mention by name although it was in use as an ale house before that time. An auction of goods including 'brewing copper, large mash tub, coolers, barrels and casks' suggests before that time brewing took place on the premises. The Hart Dykes owned it in 1818 and in 1867 leased it to H & V Nichol's Brewery of Lewisham. Nichols was taken over by Whitbread in 1891. The lease then changed hands until being taken over by Fremlins which was then taken over by Whitbread in 1967. Whitbread had owned the freehold since 1936 when a large part of the Lullingstone Estate was sold. On the site of the current car park stood a row of cottages demolished after being badly damaged by a bomb on Riverside during World War 2.

Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser, Saturday 27 October.

34 acres of Capital Underwood, the Property of Sir P. H. Dyke, Bart.

Mr. William Hodsoll will sell by auction, at the "Plough Inn," Eynsford, Kent on, Wednesday, November 7th, 1866, at 3 o'clock, about 34 acres of capital Underwood, including some valuable Larch and Chestnut Plantations, in the parishes of Eynsford, Shoreham, Lullingstone, and Knockholt, Kent.

May be viewed on application to Mr. Thomas Glover, Bower Farm, Eynsford, and Robert Thomas, at Well Hill, near Chelsfield, of whom catalogues may be had, and also of Mr. William Hodsoll, Auctioneer, &c, Farnham, Kent.

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