Licensees :
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JAMES BULL	by 03.1784
JOSH. BULL	by 03.1787
SAMUEL BALL / BALLS	1789 - 1794
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Mr. Lambert  (senior) (Josiah Lambert would have been 17 years old in 1824 - See October 1869, below)	1824
JOSIAH LAMBERT age 44 in 1851 (Jonah Lambert in 1845 directory and William Lambert 1846 PO directory) Died Q4 1887 - age 80	1841 - 1888
Saturday 2nd May 1857 - Accused of allowing drunkenness and other disorderly conduct in his house at 1:00 am. Dismissed with a caution.
Saturday 2nd October 1869 - Paid a fine of 2s and 12s costs for allowing his house to be open for the sale of beer before the termination of divine service on Sunday 19th September. Absent at the time, Mr. Lambert said he had left his son in charge, and in the 45 years he had been at the house, this was the first complaint.
Mrs FRANCIS LAMBERT Age 78 in 1891 (Still given in 1904) Died Q1 1908 - age 95	1890 - 1900+
A. J. KEMP	to 03.1903
ARTHUR COMAN	16.03.1903
FRANCES LAMBERT Died 01.1908	renewed 04.02.1907 to 1908
THEOPHILIS ALFRED LAMBERT	03.1908 - 1912
Miss AGNES LAMBERT (Died December 1917 - age 72	05.02.1912 - 1912
G. E. WESTLEY	14.10.1912
ROBERT EVERARD GOSS (Robert Everitt Goss 1915) (Died September 1936 - age 69)	1914 - 1916
HAROLD EDWIN SCOTNEY (Died June 1962 - age 79)	by 1922
ARTHUR CHARLES EAGLE Died September 1956 - age 74	22.10.1945
HORACE REGINALD KING Died December 1971 - age 53	27.08.1956 - 1971
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FREDDIE SHARPIN	07.1974
JOHN THOMAS NEWMAN	1976 - 1984
REG & BARBARA FITCH	11.1984 - 1992
SARAH & STUART MERRITT senior	1992 - 1998+
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August 2010

Valued at £150, 23rd March 1784.

No change recommended at First Joint Committee Meeting of Bullards and S&P 29th May 1962.
Sales given as 140 barrels.

An inglenook fireplace, in the bar, was bricked up in early 1938 and a tiled fireplace installed.
In November 1974 the fireplace was again opened up. A penny dated 1806 was found in the debris along with empty cigarette packets, one of which had been dated 14th February 1938.

 

Advertised as an Inn with large ornamental gardens and scenic railway.
An "Enormous prize-winning garden" by 1997