Licensees :
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WILLIAM CLAXTON	here 17.09.1789
JAMES PEGG Age 75 in 1841	by 1794 - 1842
HENRY CURSON	1845
THOMAS CURSIN (also given as Curson)	1846 - 1875
Mrs EMMA CURSIN (also given as Curson)	1875 - 1881
ROBERT SCARFF Age 68 in 1911	14.12.1881
Fine of 10/- plus 4/- costs 10.01.1898 for allowing beer to be consumed out of hours.
Fine 5/- plus 4/- costs 27.06.1910 for permitting drunkenness. Also a fine of 10/- plus 6/6d costs for permitting gaming on licensed premises.
SAMUEL SCARFF	25.09.1925
JOHN WILLIAM HARMER	15.10.1939
FRED ISON	15.10.1954
MAJOR GERALD SOUTHERLAND	03.05.1957
PETER MARLOW GUNNETT	26.06.1970
BERYL STEVENSON	25.06.1971
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VAL PURKISS	by 2008

Shown on Bryant's 1826 map.

A person named James Pegg was confined to Walsingham prison for one month, April 1833, for an assault on farmer Edward Warner, farmer of Hempstead.

Location also given as Baconsthorpe.

Offered for sale September 1997 and subsequently closed.

Reopened by July 2001.

Closed 2010

Objections September 2012 towards plans to convert to private dwelling.
Plans to change into dwelling approved April 2015.