Licensees :
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JOHN BAKER	here 04.1779
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JOSEPH BISHOP	1789 - 1816
MICHAEL CALVER	here 10.1827
GEORGE FISK	1836
SAMUEL KETTLE	1841
JOHN BUXTON age 39 in 1851 Went to Pulham St. Mary Crown.	1845 - 1851
WILLIAM YOUNGMAN & tailor (as W. Young senior 1865)	1854 - 1869
Miss SARAH YOUNGMAN	1871 - 1875
GEORGE WATSON SMITH & carpenter & wheelwright Age 78 in 1911	1877 - 1911
JAMES BARNARD	1912 - 1925
CHARLES HENRY LEEDER	1929 - 1932
Tuesday 25th March 1930 - Fine of 10s for supplying liquor at illegal hours on 28th February. Customer Walter Henry Bullingham, fish merchant, received the same fine.
Tuesday 23rd August 1932 - Fine of £ 1 for selling intoxicating liquor at an illegal hours on 13th August. Customers Stewart Aldrich, general dealer, and Robert king Fisher (71) of Pulham Market, were fined 10s and 5s respectively.
ALBERT MARSHALL	1933 - 1937
.TIMOTHY DADE	03.08.1937
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Also found as the DUKE.

Advertised To Be Sold 24th April 1779.
Situated on the side of the Turnpike Road leading from Norwich to the Scole Inn. With Stables and other Outhouses, Yards, Gardens and commodious Bowling Green. In occupation of the owner, Mr. John Baker who intended going into a different business.

Appears in Licence Register taken 10th September 1789.

J. Bishop announced July 1803 that he had established a neat Post-Chaise with able horses and a carful Driver, for the accommodation of Gentlemen, offering a more desirable mode of travelling.
Having made very great improvements at the Dukes Head, there was no doubt that the Posting business would merit the favours of the Public.

Joseph Bishop, Innkeeper, Nurseryman, Dealer and Chapman was confirmed bankrupt, 1st March 1816.
Dividends from his Estate were to be paid out at Bungay, 26th July, 1817.

An auction of the estate of the bankrupt Joseph Bishop held here Tuesday 23rd July 1816. Sale included land, and all crops growing thereon, called Great and Little Blacklands, Drake's or Ash Yards, Potters Pightle, all in Stratton St Mary and a Double Cottage in Wacton.

Shown on Bryant's 1826 map.

In court at long Stratton, Tuesday 24th April 1866, baker Alfred William Seaman (16) and riveter Joseph Daniels, both from Norwich, each received one month's imprisonment, with hard labour for stealing a pair of "highlows", value 5s, from William Youngman.

For Sale by Auction Saturday 20th June 1868.
(Date of sale originally given as 30th May 1868, seemingly then unsold, or sale rescheduled.)
Then in occupation of William Youngman.
With Stables, Sheds and good Garden containing 1a.0r.17p.

S&P advised their solicitors by a letter dated 20th November 1908 that the half yearly tithe of 3/10d had been paid twice by mistake.


It was reported 15th February 1963 that the house was closed and the licence held by a representative of the Brewery.