Licensees :
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JOHN GRIGGS	1789 - 1790
WILLIAM GIRLING	1792- 1799
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Mrs ELIZABETH JONES	1836 - 1846
ISAAC NEWTON age 46	1851 - 1858
GEORGE MEADOWS	1861 - 1865
Notice of bankruptcy published in the London Gazette and dated Friday 2nd February 1866. Declared bankrupt April 1866, then living in Princes Street, Norwich, previously living in Fore Street, Ipswich and prior to that in Swaffham, at all times unemployed. Previously a licensee at Thursford and farmer. Total debt of £109.10.7d accrued through want of capital, bad trade, poorness of land, requiring much labour and manure, also blight in potato crop and loss of horses.
JOHN CLAXTON & farmer	1868 - 1879
WILLIAM D. PARTRICK	1881
NICHOLAS PARKER	1888 - 1892
Mrs SARAH ANN PARKER	1896 - 1900
ARTHUR ESGATE	by 1903
LEONORA ELIZABETH ESGATE	02.11.1914
ARTHUR WILLIAM EDWIN ESGATE	04.05.1925
Mrs CLARA MAUD ESGATE	01.01.1951
SIDNEY WILLIAM GROOM	03.03.1969
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August 1996

The original Crawfish was a coaching inn and stood near to what became Thursford railway station. The new house was built at some time after 1871 and  before 1881 to cater for the railway clientele, although the new site was half mile distant from the station.

It appears that the three other licensed establishments in the village, the BELL, GOLDEN LION and HORSE SHOES all closed at about the time of the CRAWFISH relocating.


The CRAWFISH and Crawfish Cottage are both given 1881.
The `Old Crawfish' still stands some distance South West of the present Crawfish P.H. - on the opposite side of the road.