Licences to sell Beer in Yateley, 1792 - 1795

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Notes:

It is likely that the only licenced premises in Yateley village in the 1790s was the Dog & Partridge, the other three licences being for the three Blackwater inns; the Swan, Red Lion and White Hart. Certainly there were only four licensed premises in Yateley and Blackwater when the next series of alehouse licences begin in 1831, listing the same four inns.

However there can be some debate about whether there may have been up to two other pubs in the village in the 1790s since firstly it is not known whether "Church Houses" such as the Dog & Partridge actually needed licences from the magistrates in this era, so that Thomas Shackleford could have been licensed additionally for other premises.

Secondly William Dunning is stated to hold his licence in Yateley rather than Hawley. There was a property possibly known previously as the Bear in eastern Yateley, which could have been the name of a pub. If William Dunning was licenced for a pub in Yateley tithing, rather than Blackwater, then we must conclude that either Thomas Liley, and his successors ran both the Red Lion and the White Hart, or that the White Hart was not built until after 1795.

However our current conclusion is that the simple solution is the most likely and that there were only four fully licensed premises (the Dog & Partridge, Red Lion, the Swan and the White Hart) in Yateley and Blackwater in the period from 1790 until James Rogers obtained a full licence for wines and spirits for the White Lion in 1856.

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Original page written by Peter Tipton for the Yateley Society's 1997 Exhibition: Inns, Alehouses & Maltsters

Additional research by Richard Johnston, & Elizabeth Tipton

Original page has been revised to include the Society's latest Research

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