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Rhodes Minnis

 

Bagshaw Directory 1847 mentions a "White Horse" in the Elham pages, but refers the vicinity to be at Rhodes Minnis. However, I have found an earlier reference to the pub from the Dover telegraph dated 1840, as below.

 

Information acquired from the Lyminge newsletter, May 2009. Mike Athow says the following:- "The White Horse which stood on the footpath that runs from Longage Hill to White Horse Lane. Old maps show that this footpath was a road in previous times. Mike remembers that the old pub sign hung in a tree in the field, for many years, having been placed there after the pub was pulled down sometime early in the twentieth century. It seems that the sign was lost when the tree was cut down.

 

From the Dover Telegraph and Cinque Ports General Advertiser, Saturday 1 February, 1840.

STAG HUNT

One of the stags presented to the officers of the 11th Light Dragoons, by their Colonel, the Earl of Cardigan, was, yesterday, started from the meadow of the "White Horse" at Rhodes Minnis, and went off by Sibton House, through the park, to Lyminge mill, up the street, to the left, at the back of the Rev. Mr. Price's house, over his knolls, to Postling wood; from thence by Iching Hill, to Tetter's Leese, and Mr. Hambrook's lower barn, Skettersfield, through Ottings, and to Boich Orchard, where he was taken, and conveyed back to the "White Horse," after a fine run of one hour and a half, over a distance of 11 or 12 miles, during which he took eleven leaps. The field consisted of between 40 and 50 persons, including the officers of the 11th Light Dragoons, who were all highly delighted with the chase, and the hounds belonging to Mr. Stephen Kelsey, sen. of Lyminge, who, at the extraordinary age of 83, was present and heartily enjoyed the sport.

 

 

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DODD Mark 1847+ Bagshaw's Directory 1847

 

Bagshaw's Directory 1847From Bagshaw Directory 1847

 

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