Licensees :
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WILLIAM LEGGETT	1794 - 1815
JOHN LEGGETT	1822 - 1830
JAMES LEGGATT age 55 in 1851 as Leggett pre 1845	1836 - 1856
MITCHELL DYE age 37 in 1861	*1858 - 1866
JAMES HURN	09.11.1866
WILLIAM PATTERSON & horse & trap hire age 42 in 1881	1868 - 1892
CLEMENT JAMES ALLCOCK age 33 in 1901 (Clemence James Alcock 1892)	04.11.1892 to 1922
WILLIAM WILLIAMS BRANDER	06.01.1922
BERTIE JOHN WILLIAM WHITESIDE	06.07.1923
OSBOURNE STIBBON	13.04.1945
GORDON JOHN LINGWOOD	01.04.1949
JACK FILBY	22.05.1970
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LEE JOHNSON & CHRIS BENSLEY (Cockers)	09.1996
Mrs JULIE HANNANT (Cockers)	1999
GRAHAM STUART COOK	2009
COLIN .......... (Cockers Bistro)	mid 2015 - 01.2017
Kane Hooper, Ben Watkins & Louise Wooliter. (Rusty Tap)	April 2017
STEVE GARNER & JANE HOWARD	from 01. 2020 - 07.2024
Closed July to October 2024
MARVIN SHALDERS & PHILLIP EGLEN	09.2024

1990

Owned by Samuel Bidwell c1812 and by three ladies who claimed a 1/19th share each.
 (Charlotte Wells, ..... Horsley & Frances Wells, spinster.)

The Fakenham Provident Society collected their Quarterly Subscriptions here Wednesday 7th February 1816.

Address also given as Silver Street.

S&P report for Watney Mann (East Anglia) Ltd, prepared June 1969 recommended immediate closure. The advice seems not to have been taken up.

Renamed COCKERS from September 1996

Back to the COCK January 2004

Closed 2010

Trading as COCKERS BISTRO by 2015.
Closed by January 2017.

Re-opened April 2017 as the RUSTY TAP to January 2018.

Trading as the Marrakesh Fusion to September 2019

Re-opened as a public house Friday 20th  January 2020
The COCK

Closed July 2024 owing to retirement of owners.
Scheduled to reopen November 2024 under new ownership.