Canterbury Journal, Kentish Times and Farmers' Gazette 09 September 1865.

LICENSING DAY.

The licenses of the public houses in the Ashford division were renewed. The following new licenses were applied for:—

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David Stickells, of the "Bridge House Hotel" beer shop, South Ashford, had also given the requisite notice of his intention to apply for a license; but it appeared he had since left the house.

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The Bench retired to consider the applications, and on returning into Court announced that they had decided to refuse all of them with the exception of that for the "Man of Kent." Ashford, kept by William Richard Brown, and for that house they had decided to grant a license.