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CHURCH PLAIN BROTHERCROSS HUNDRED FULL LICENCE 01328   738241
SMITHDON, DOCKING & BROTHERCROSS LICENCE REGISTERS PS 13/4/1 & 2 (1949 to 1975)
GREENE KING Leased from the Holkham Estates Company.
HOLKHAM ESTATE from July 2019
Licensees :
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JAMES BRETT
& wheelwright
Age 65 in 1841
(Died Q3 1851 ?)		 1830 - 1846
JOHN GARNER
age 46 in 1851
& wheelwright
died Q2 1872 - age 68		 1850 - 1872
Mrs LEAH GARNER to 09.1872
WILLIAM HENRY LAKE
& inspector of nuisances for Docking Union 1875
& sanitary inspector for the Docking Union 1877
(died Q2 1877 - age 41 ?)		 28.09.1872
MARY ANN LAKE
widow		 22.07.1877 - 1879

THOMAS PARR
& coal dealer
age 61 in 1891

 22.02.1879 - 1897
WILLIAM HENRY HOOKER
& general carter.
Died Saturday 15th May 1915 age 50		 25.10.1897 - 1915
Mrs MARY HOOKER
died Q2 1923 - age 59		 1916 - 1922
JOHN JOSEPH MAHON 1923 - 1931
JOHN WILLIAM BETTS 1933
ARTHUR G FACHNEY 1937
WILLIAM BARNES HAY by 1948
THOMAS FRANCIS 10.03.1952
ALEXANDER IAN HOOD 09.12.1963
LESLIE THOMAS SAMUEL WINTER 14.04.1966
 - 1994
MIKE STAFFORD
& daughter LUCY		 02.1994
LUCY STAFFORD 1997 - 2000
PENNY THORNLEY by 2005
SIMON ALPER by 2011
DEBBIE & PETER De GROEVE to 2016
 
JESSIKA CROSS
manager		 2023
GREG HACON 07.2025

The Lord Nelson - April 1987
April 1987

Dates from 1637

Nelson is said to have held a farewell party in an upstairs room before leaving in 1793 to take command of the Agamemnon.

The PLOUGH to 1807 when renamed, 2 years after Trafalgar and the death of Nelson. (Horatio Nelson 29th September 1758 to 21st October 1805)
(Another account gives the renaming of the house as following the Battle of the Nile, 1st August 1798)

House held a six day licence until 16th May 1938 when the seven day licence from West Lexham Red Lion was transferred. (Application had been approved Monday, 8th February 1937).

Leslie Winter was founder member of the Nelson Society.

CLOSED 2016

Offered For Sale by Greene King, January 2019

Said to still have the original stone floor and settles that date from the time of Nelson.

Purchased July 2019 by the Holkham Estate with plans to increase seating by 50 covers.

"Part of the Woodforde's Brewery Portfolio " as reported November 2024.

 

OS Grid reference 852418