DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

Sort file:- Sheerness, March, 2021.

Page Updated:- Sunday, 07 March, 2021.

PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1771-

Swan

Latest 1790+

 

Mile Town

Sheerness

 

I don't believe this is the same "Swan" as addressed in Blue Town.

 

4 Sept 1771.

Mr Broad at the "Swan," Milehouses, and Baker at the "Thatched House," licences was taken away by the Justice at the Sitting, Greenstreet.

The Reverend Mr David Martin, Curate at Minster, the only instrument, and would have put down the "Chequers," "Highlander," and all the others, except his nephew (William Gardner’s "Kings Arms") if he could have had his will....

 

Kentish Gazette, Tuesday 28th December 1790.

A public house. To be sold by private contract.

All that Leasehold Messuage or Tenement, known by the name or sign of the "Swan"; together with outhouses, stable, yard and garden; and also six Tenaments lying behind the above named "Swan," with the yards and gardens there unto belonging; all in very good repair; situate, lying and being at the Mile Houses, in the parish of Minster, in the Isle of Sheppey, in the county of Kent, and now in the occupation of James Deat and his undertenants.

Further particulars may be known when applying to William Murton, Milton next Sittingbourne.

 

LICENSEE LIST

BROAD Mr to Sept/1771

 

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