Licensees :
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WILLIAM ROLFE	1794
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ROBERT SPINKS	1836 - 1846
MARY SPINKS (68)	1851 - 1853
ROBERT SPINKS (junior 1854) & dealer	1854 - 18??
ROBERT SPINKS senior	1873 - 1886
Wednesday 3rd September 1873 - Paid 14s costs having been accused of assaulting John Willett on 30th August. Accuser did not appear to testify.
Mrs MARY ANN THOMPSON	1888 - 1892
ROBERT SMITH	1896 - 1904
JOHN ERNEST COOPER	1908
WILLIAM HARROD	1912 - 1956
FRANK ALBERT WILLETT	02.05.1956
DONALD SEAMAN	1964 - 1975
THOMAS HORTON.	1975
Closed November 1975
MAUREEN & TERRY BALL	by 12.1976 -1979
DAVID & ANNIE SCOTT	05.1979 -  04.1980+
COLIN & STEPHANIE ......	by 12.1980
TOM & JAN HORTON	by 08.1983 - 14.09.1987
RAY & TRIXIE CADLE	09.1987
Closed "for some months" to 1993
JOHN & MARGARET GREGORY	03.1993
IAN COCHRANE & KATY PAYNE	by 03.1995
TOM YOUNG	from 05.1999
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STEPHEN & SHAUNAGH BLISS	07.2004 -
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Thanks to Paula Howes for the update 01.11.02

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Thanks to Clifford Flogdell for added information on the licensees.
See :-
METHWOLD INNS & INNKEEPERS
1836 to 1970
by Cliff Flogdell

© Cliff Flogdell 2003

2014

17th century Inn.

Closed by Watney Mann in 1975.

Reopened by December 1976

Closed in early 1990's.

Reopened 1993 as a freehouse; selling Greene King Ales and guest beers. Then advertised as skilfully restored in the 1970's'.