The Square

Elham

The earliest mention of the "Cock" as a pub, is to be found on a piece of paper showing the title deeds of the pub when it was sold for £7 dated 9th October 1605.

Licensee Webb Foreman, who died in March 1749, brewed on the premises and upon his demise, had some 6,712 gallons of beer in stock. That's 186 brewers' barrels - Some wake Mr Foreman must have had!

David Gurr says he has found a reference in the 1720 will of one of his ancestors Margery Forman to a "Malthouse and Brewhouse ... belonging, situate, lying and being in Elham & now in the tenancy or occupation of Thomas Hopkins in a lane called Cook Lane."

In Margery's will she leaves the Malthouse and Brewhouse to her son Edward. Webb Foreman was Edward's son, born in Elham in 1713.

In 1830 the name changed to the one we know today, the "King's Arms."

LICENSEE LIST

FOREMAN Margery to 1720 dec'd

HOPKINS Thomas (licensee)

FOREMAN Edward 1720+

FOREMAN Webb (son) to Mar/1749 dec'd