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Figgetts
Ashhurst
The only reference I have found for this pub is in the Pigot's directory.
Listed as in Ashurst under Tavern and Public Houses.
Further research suggests the premises lost it's licence when contraband
was found in the cellar and its license was transferred to the "Chafford
Arms" just up the road in Fordcombe. Unfortunately I do not know the
date of this yet, but it was sometime after 1851 when the "Chafford
Arms" was built.
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From the Maidstone Journal, 8 February 1791.
To be sold by auction, by E. Strange.
At the house of Mr. Stanford, the "Black Lion," called "Figgetts", in the
parish of Ashhurst, in the County of Kent, on Friday, the 18th of February,
1791, at Two o'clock in the Afternoon.
A Valuable Freeholder Estate, consisting of a good farmhouse, with suitable
Offices and Out-Buildings, with a neat Cottage; together with about 12 acres of
exceeding good Arable, Meadow, Pasture, and Hop Ground, a very fine Orchard,
with a good Marl-Pit on the Premises, situate near Pounds Bridge, in the Parish
of Penshurst, and County of Kent; the property of Messrs. Kember and Co. and
hath been in the family for a number of years.
For further particulars inquire of the Auctioneer, Tunbridge Wells; or of Mr.
Kember, who will show the Premises.
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South Eastern Gazette, Tuesday 25 August 1846.
Tunbridge Wells Assault.
John Coppard v. George Card.
The complainant deposed that on the 4th instant, he went to the "Black
Lion" public house to serve a
warrant on the defendant to bring him to the Wells' Petty Sessions, when
he jumped up and struck
complainant on the head, and swore he would split his skull. He then
threw complainant down and knelt
upon him and he, in consequence, spat blood.
Card, in his defence, said that when he was at the "Black Lion," Coppare
came in and said, "You are my
prisoner," and he pulled out handcuffs and a staff. He wanted
complainant to come to his house; he did not
assault him; he then called Richard Coppard, who said he was with his
father when the defendant was
handcuffed, and he did not see him strike his father. Was present with
his father and brother, and pulled
Card off; he was kneeling on them both.
George Anscombe and J. Coppard deposed that Card never struck Coppard.
Find 20s, and costs, 14s.; or in default of payment, to be committed for
one month.
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LICENSEE LIST
STANFORD Mr 1791
BAKER Francis 1828+
BEST Joseph 1832+
LINDHURST Sarah 1841+ (age 50 in 1841 )
GOODWIN Alfred 1851+ (age 30 in 1851)
From the Pigot's Directory 1828-29
From the Pigot's Directory 1832-33-34
Census
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