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PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1617

Mermaid

Latest 1734

(Name to)

Harbour Street

Folkestone

 

Opened as early as 1617 but not really mentioned properly until 100 years later in 1717 Thomas Baker's Quarry Book.

The name changed to the "Royal George" in honour of the second Hanoverian monarch George II (the last British monarch to be born outside Great Britain) around 1734.

 

LICENSEE LIST

HUNT Jeffrey Listed 1717 Bastions

GODDEN Thomas Mentioned 1734 Bastions

 

BastionsFrom More Bastions of the Bar by Easdown and Rooney

 

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