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  SMITHDON HUNDRED FULL LICENCE  
SMITHDON REGISTER taken 13th September 1790 & 15th September 1794 and SMITHDON, DOCKING & BROTHERCROSS LICENCE REGISTERS PS 13/4/1 & 2 (1949 to 1975)
STEWARD & PATTESON   
WATNEY MANN  
CHEF & BREWER  
MAYPOLE GROUP  
HORATIO INNS Ltd from 2011 (a Marco Pierre White enterprise)
AGELLUS HOTELS from 2015
CHESTNUT from April 2024
Licensees :
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JOHN NEALE / NEAL 1790 - 1794
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ROBERT TOWNSHEND
(Married Miss Ann Painter 5th November 1820)
1820
JOHN GRICE 1836 - 1839
WILLIAM ALLEN
age 41 in 1851
& farmer 24 acres
1845 - 1883
ROBERT ALLEN
age 50 in 1888
1888 - 1890
FREDERICK SAVAGE 1891 - 1908
JAMES HENRY PAGE 1912
BENJAMIN PERCY WATSON 1916 - 1929
EDWARD ERNEST BELL
(Also as Edward E Benn)
by 1933
WILL SCROUTHER October 1949
GEORGE FREDERICK GARNER EDGELEY 11.08.1952
WILLIAM HENRY HIGGINS 14.03.1955
SAMUEL LESLIE TUCKER 26.09.1960
EVELYN MARY TUCKER 02.02.1970
RICHARD WILLIAM SIDEY 03.08.1970 - 1984
PATRICIA & NICHOLAS MARTIN 11.1984 -
GEOFF & CATHY CAMBRIDGE 01,1987
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STEVEN & HELEN STAFFORD July 2006
SHAYNE WARD
Head Chef
by 2018
CLOSED Sept 2022 to July 2024
JOE OUTRAM &
EMMA COLLISON
07.2024

September 1998

Thornham - 06.07.1996
July 1996


Image thanks to Hilary Moore - Feb 2009
Nance Scrouther, wife of Will - 1950
Image thanks to Hilary Moore.

A Grade II listed property.

Robert Allen left the property 11th October 1890 having sold his effects by auction on the 9th October. Two cupboards, not for sale, were put in a field before the auction and were missing after the sale. On Monday 27th October 1890, labourer Henry Nudds of Thornham was found guilty of theft and was fined £1, including costs, or 14 days hard labour. Robert Allen was then described as a carrier.

Trading January 2006 as the OLD COACH HOUSE
` PIZZA RESTAURANT
BAR & COFFEE LOUNGE '

Back to the CHEQUERS by 2011.

Offered for sale by the administrators of Horatio Inns Limited, April 2015.