WOODMAN'S ARMS Pub of Wormshill

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Page Updated:- Monday, 15 November, 2021.

PUB LIST

PUBLIC HOUSES

Paul Skelton

Earliest 1835-

Woodman's Arms

Latest 1901+

Bottom Pond Road/The Street

Little Norwood

Wormshill

Above Google image June 2009 showing the former Woodman's Arms. Building now called "The Woodmans."

Above map, date unknown.

Above photo showing Norwood Farmhouse 2005, by Penny Mayes Creative Commons Licence.

In the 19th century, a public house existed at the northern edge of the village near Norwood Farm and was known as the "Woodman's Arms" (and possibly also as the "Norwood Arms"). The pub was recorded on Ordnance Survey maps of the village between 1870 and 1946, but as of May 2012, the building is a Grade II listed private dwelling. However I have traced evidence of the public house as far back as 1835.

Today the building is a private house.

From Morning Post 14 February 1835.

SPORTING. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.

The Tickham hounds meet on Monday, at the "Woodman's Arms," Wormshill.

Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser 5 June 1871.

BEARSTED PETTY SESSIONS.

Mr. Joseph Barnett, Innkeeper, Wormshill, was charged with having several incorrect measures. The measures in question were jugs, and defendant contended that they were not measures, and that he never drew beer in them. Fined 40s. and 9s. costs.

LICENSEE LIST

RANSOM William 1858-Aug/71 (age 62 in 1851)