PUBLIC HOUSES OF THE WEALD by Tessa Leeds.

The Weald, like many other villages, once boasted more Public Houses that it does in the present day. The reason for there being so many in the first place was due to the Government passing The Beer Shop Act of 1830. This Act enabled virtually any householder to produce beer on his/her own premises for sale, providing that an annual excise fee was paid.

THE QUEEN'S HEAD. Morlevs Road.

The Queen's Head stood at the bottom of Riverhill opposite the toll house. Although a likely spot for an Inn it may have been only a beer shop. Little evidence for its existence can be found other than the name, and newspaper reports of the period of railway construction which mention the number of drunken lodgers being four to a room with two to a bed. This in itself proves nothing more than the fact that the owner took in lodgers. Demolished in the 1960s, when the roundabout and by-pass were constructed, only a part of the garden remains as a traffic island with a fruit tree.

Further notes.

The Queens Head on the island on the junction of the A21 with the old Sevenaoks to Tonbridge Road roundabout. This was taking in lodgers who drank in the 1860's at the time of the railway construction, it was an ideal location for a public house/beer shop at the bottom of Riverhill but no information has been found apart from that mentioned the cottages were kept when the A21 by pass was built but have since been demolished.

I think the "Queens Head" was in existence for only a few years while the tunnel was under construction 1863 - 68 it doesn't claim to be more than cottages in any census.