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FREEBRIDGE-LYNN HUNDRED FULL LICENCE CLOSED 01.05.1957
REGISTERS TAKEN CASTLE RISING 26th September 1789 & 26th September 1794
H E M Bourke Brewer and Owner of Grimstone, as given in licensing application 8th August 1883
BAGGES   
STEWARD & PATTESON Purchased 1929
Licensees :
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MARCH HARGRAVE 1789
THOMAS OLDMAN 1794
JOHN JAMES 1804
   
HENRY HARPLEY
& bricklayer
1827 - 1845
JOHN JARVIS
age 50 in 1851
*1846 - 1865
18th August 1856 - Charged along with Henry Gates, publican,  William Moore, farmer, and William Warner, herdsman, for cruelly ill-treating sheep. Each fined 5s and 15s 6d costs, or 21 days' imprisonment, except Moore who was to pay 1s and 15s 6d costs, or 14 days' imprisonment.
STEPHEN LINDER / LINDEN 1868 - 1869
Mrs ELIZABETH LEGGETT
age 53 in 1871
1871 - 1883
WILLIAM CHARLES SMITH 1883
GEORGE SAVAGE 1887 - 1888
JOHN GEORGE MARSHALL
gardener - 1891 age 29
1890 - 1896
GEORGE WILLIAMSON
Later at Castle Acre, Foresters.
1900
THOMAS HODGSON (55) 1901
JOHN POOLEY 1904 - 1908
FREDERICK HOWARD Here May 1910
WILLIAM HENRY TURNER 1912
ALBERT ROBERT TWAITE 1916 - 1922
GEORGE HENRY GARNER 1925
ALEXANDER WATSON
see below
by 1928 - 1950
EDWARD JAMES SWALLOW 06.02.1950
CONRAD GORE 19.10.1953 to closure



NOTE :- Although Mr. Alexander Watson is given in trade directories from at least 1928, newspaper reports in January and September 1939 give Mr. W. Alexander as the occupant of the Plough. <Mistaken reporting or was he a manager?>.



Advertised for sale by auction 2nd June 1804, with immediate possession. John Hall and Hubbard Woodfield being occupants of adjoining cottages which were also in sale.

For Sale by Auction Tuesday 18th September 1827.
Occupant said to be Henry Harper.

William Charles Smith, already living at the Plough, applied for a licence to sell Intoxicating Liquor at the Annual Licensing Meeting, 3rd September 1883.

20 barrels sold in the year immediately before closure.

On 11th January 1957, Donald Mackenzie of the ROSE & CROWN, Marham applied to the Justices for removal of the licence of the Plough to the Rose & Crown in order that he would be allowed to sell by retail any intoxicating liquor by retail either on or off the premises.


Licence transferred to the ROSE & CROWN, Marham.