High Street/Chapel Lane

Staplehurst

Photo date 23 July, 2011 from http://www.flickr.com by Tom Burnham.

Above photo by David Anstiss, Creative Commons Licence.

Above sign left 2002, sign right 2010.

Previously called the "Royal Oak" I believe it changed name in the mid 1990s.

Certainly still trading in 2011 but the pub has now (2018) closed, has been bought by a property company who intend to convert it into flats above a bistro on the ground floor. Date of closure unfortunately as yet unknown.

I do know that by August 2015 it was operating as "Helen's Coffee House," and by March 2019 it became the "Rockin Robin Smokery."

LICENSEE LIST

http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/prideofkent.html