Hoaden
Ash
Above image taken from Google maps, May 2009, and location kindly
pointed out to me by Tony Wilson. |
Above map 1896. |
Identified between 1851 and 1871.
The only reference I can see for the address of Houden near Ash is Houden
Farm referring to "The Court for Relief of Insolvent Debtors 1836":- John
Laslett, formerly of Houden Farm, Ash, next -Sandwich, Kent, Farmer,
afterwards of Sandgate, near Hythe, Kent, out of business, then of Ash
aforesaid, Labourer, and late of Pound-Lane, Canterbury, out of business.
Further research gives the address as Staple and actually the village
spelt Hoaden as shown in the map above.
The village being very small and
housing fewer than 40 buildings. However, it is mentioned in the
National
Archives website as being the "Plough Inn" Hoaden, Ash and listed in 1931,
and also mentioned as seen below when licensees changed from John
Settersfield in 1925, who I have also traced as being a beer retailer of
Hoaden, Westmarsh in 1922, to William George Marsh.
Kentish Gazette, 26 November 1850.
KENT, ASH NEXT SANDWICH AND WINGHAM.
Tenable Freehold Property and leasehold Tithe Rent Charges.
TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY MR. GEO. WOOD.
At the "King's Arms Inn," in the Town and Port of Sandwich, in the
County of Kent, on Wednesday, the 6th day of January, 1851, at Three for
Four o'clock in the Afternoon precisely.
In Four Lots.
Lot 3. All that Freehold messuage or tenement, now used as a beer shop,
and called the "Plough" with the outhouses, edifices, and buildings thereunto
adjoining said buildings, together with a large garden new and therewith, and
containing about three roods, be the same more or less, situate, living
and being at Hoden, in the Parish of Ash next Sandwich aforesaid, and
now acquired by Mr. William Beer, or his under tenants, at the yearly
rent of £20.
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From the London Gazette, April 15, 1859.
East Kent,
valuable freehold estates, situate in the parishes of Ash and Wingham, a
few miles from Sandwich and Canterbury, and leasehold tithe commutation,
rent, charges of £500 per annum, or thereabouts, portion of the Rectory
of Ash, next Sandwich, in the county of Kent.
To be sold by auction, in four lots by Mr. George Harrison, at the
Auction Mart, in the City of Canterbury, on Saturday, the 30th day of
April, 1859, at two for three o'clock, pursuant to an Order of the Court
of Chancery, made in a cause of Solly v. Wood, and other causes, and
with the approbation of the Master of the Rolls.
Lot 1. - A freehold farm.........
Let 2. - A freehold brick-built public-house or beershop, called the
"Plough," containing four rooms, a cellar and washhouse, with a garden,
containing together 1 acre, 3 rods, situate at Hoaden, in the parish of
Ash, and now let to Messrs. Beer and Co. Brewery, as tenants from year
to year, at the annual rent of £22.
Lot 3. - A cottage.........
Lot 4.......
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Michael Mirams informs me that the pub was closed around the 1960s.
From an email received 5 August 2015.
My parents lived in the above property in the 1970s - 80s. It wasn't a pub when
they bought it and I believe their predecessor had not run it as a pub
either; I think the deeds had a restrictive covenant preventing the sale
of alcoholic drinks.
Whenever they were gardening they would dig up stonewear pots and
flagons often with ginger beer branding and glass bottles. They were told that when it was a pub there was no bar, rather a hatch
leading to the stairs into the semi basement and having given your order
the publican would then go downstairs to get your drink. I remember being told they they once received a visit from some ex WWII
aircrew that had been based at RAF Manston and drank at the Plough,
apparently it was one of the few places that had beer at the time. Hope that is of interest. Jon
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LICENSEE LIST
MAXTED Richard 1851+ (age 61 in 1851)
SANDY John 1861+ (age 39 in 1861)
FORD William 1871+
(widow age 33 in 1871)
SETTERSFIELD John 1901 (also market gardener age 56 in 1901)
SETTERSFIELD John to Sept/1925
MARSH George William Sept/1925-Oct/1931
HOGBEN Frederick George Oct/1931+
https://pubwiki.co.uk/Plough.shtml
From the Dover Express
Census
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