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CROWN HOTEL FAKENHAM Index
6 MARKET PLACE GALLOW HUNDRED FULL LICENCE -
GALLOW LICENCE REGISTERS 1789 to 08.09.1798 &  PS 26/18/1 to PS 26/18/2 (1903 to 1975)
WILLIAM HARVEY of Fakenham 10.08.1996
FAKENHAM CROWN HOTEL Co Ltd  
SIDNEY JAMES STEEL  
JOHN HARRY STEEL  
BULLARDS after 1922
WATNEY MANN 11.04.1967
CHEF & BREWER undated
ANGLIA TAVERNS 21.01.1975
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WILDMOORE PROPERTIES by 2007 - closure 2009
JAMES ANTCLIFF-STONE by June 2016
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Licensees :
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SOLOMON HARRIS to 1750
ROBERT COOK from 12.1750
SOLOMON HARRIS
Died November 1751
to 1751
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Mrs EMERY to 1780
JAMES ADDINGTON 09. 1780 - 1792
RICHARD OVERTON 1794
SUSANNA OVERTON 1798
FRANCIS WARD
Died Sunday 7th June 1829 - age 72
1799 - 1829
ANN WARD 1830
JAMES STOUGHTON
age 49 in 1851
(Died Q3 1879 - age 78)
December 1832 - 1872
WILLIAM HARVEY
(Farmer, living at Weston Longville in 1881 - Crown managed by brother George Harvey, probably from 1870's)
1875 - 1908
GEORGE HARVEY
(Age 49 in 1901)
27.04.1908
HARRY JAMES SHIPP
Age 39 in 1911
(Died December 1936 - age 68 ?)
31.10.1910
JANE KIBBY 26.11.1917
SIDNEY JAMES STEEL
(Died June 1936 - age 43 ?)
29.12.1919
JOHN HARRY STEEL 29.10.1923
Fine 25.04.1932 of 10/- plus 5/- costs for selling out of hours.
DOUGLAS ARTHUR OLIVER BAKER
(Died June 1966 - age 71)
27.04.1936
H. F. ALLABY
manager
1938
HORACE FREDERICK ALLABY
(Died December 1943 - age 55)
27.07.1939
HERBERT CORDNER MYERS
Died December 1948 - age 66
13.02.1939
FLORENCE MINNIE MYERS 28.12.1948
Fine 18.01.1954 of £24/4/- for selling out of hours.
ARNOLD ETHERIDGE
Died September 1958 - age 56
31.10.1955
EDITH GWENDOLINE ETHERIDGE
(Died July 1985 - age 81)
28.07.1958
ANTHONY MICHAEL COULSON 18.03.1968
KENNETH JOHN ROOKE no date
PERCY EDGAR RUSH 28.10.1968
ALASTAIR BERRIDGE
(manager)
c1968-9
CHARLES WALTER TAPPIN 15.09.1969
EDITH WILLMOTT 1973
GIANNI BARONI 12.03.1973
PERCY EDGAR RUSH 05.08.1974
JENNY & IAN NICOLL 1975 - 1976
.MARILYN & JOHN STACEY 07.1976
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BERNARD HOUSSIN, GUY MADIC & SABINA DAVIS 1993
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BOB & NIKKI NICHOLSON to mid 2004
HUGH & SANDRA GARNISH
(Originally as owners - Later managers)
2004 - 02.2009
 
JAMES ANTCLIFF-STONE June 2016
ALIE MAY-HANNAM February 2017 - 2024+

 

The CROWN HOTEL - FAKENHAM
1916

This house was built following a fire in 1738 which destroyed many buildings around the Market Place.
Originally called the GEORGE

Robert Cook, Groom from the Honourable Mrs Townshend, announced 15th December 1750 that he had taken the Inn, late in the possession of Solomon Harris, deceased. Mr Cook would enter the house at Christmas with a fresh stock of neat Wines and Spirituous Liquors of all sorts.....

Mentioned 28th April 1758 as a Share of intestate's effects of Sarah King of Wellingborough.

An auction was held here 11th January 1776.

Mr. Addington took over the house from Mrs. Emery from 29th September 1780 according to the Norfolk Chronicle of Saturday 12th August 1780. He had previously been at the Falcon, Whittlesea.

Known as the CROWN from at least 1795 when mentioned in the diary of Mary Hardy.

Meeting place of the Courts Leet and Baron of the Manor of Fakenham Lancaster.

The auction of a newly erected Post Windmill at Great Snoring, was held here Thursday 22nd September 1808.
Unsold, the property was again offered for auction at the Unicorn, Gt. Snoring in 1809.

Ann Ward, widow, thanked the Friends of her late husband, 27th June 1829,  for their support over the 32 years of his occupation of the Inn. Mrs. Ward intended to carry on the business, assisted by her Family.

In 1830 the coach the HERO called at the CROWN & the RED LION every alternate morning, except Sundays, at 6:00am on route to London.

Also in 1830 the coach the NELSON called every Monday and Wednesday at 8:00am and Saturdays at 6:00am on route from Wells to Norwich. The return was at 7:00pm the same day.

J. Stoughton thanked the Gentlemen who had so liberally encouraged him during his residence at the Inn that he was holding his House-warming on Thursday 13th December 1832.

The Fakenham Association for the Prosecution of Felons offered a reward of £1 for the detection and conviction of the party or parties, who on the night of Friday 8th October 1858, stole a quantity of grapes from the garden of Mr. James Stroughton, Crown Inn.

Note : George Harvey is given as licensee from 1908, but appears in the census returns 1881, 1891 & 1901, at the Crown, then acting as a manager for licensee William Harvey.



CLOSED 6th March 2009
Licence surrendered 11th December 2009

Plans to reopen July 2016 announced June 2016.
Reopened Saturday 23rd July 2016.
Closed 1st January 2017......
Plans to reopen announced February 2017.