Register of Licences, Court of Petty Sessions, 1873 - 1962

Hampshire Record Office 33M73/XP102 to XP136 deposited 29 Sep 1963.

The volumes relate to Courts held at both Odiham and Aldershot, unless otherwise stated in a particular volume.

The Yateley Society has not yet extracted and transcribed references to premises in Yateley, Blackwater and Hawley from all these volumes. Only two volumes have been transcribed: 1873 (XP102) and 1881 (XP110) and put into a database with extracts from other years relating to specific licenced houses. The year 1881 was seected as being a census year, and 1873 was selected as closest to the 1871 census.

Certain key facts:

The Yew Tree Inn, Darby Green appears in the 1873 registers as a former Ante 1869 Beerhouse with an ON-licence to sell Beer & Cider - but not Wines & Spirits. The owner is stated to be Mr Henry Hewitt, the brewer of Waltham St Lawrence, and the "holder of the licence" was Henry Wareham. The licence was transferred to Sarah Wareham on 21 April 1874, and then to John Smallbone on 13 July 1875. The business was valued at £20 per annum, the same as The Ely. In 1881 it is noted in the registers "House converted as Church" and in the "transferee" column, "house done way with", and in 1882 in the "licensee" column it states "licence not applied for". This pins down the genesis of St Barnabas' Church in Darby Green.

The Wheat Sheaf, Yateley Green (ie Brookfield House) appears nowhere on the lists so the beerhouse licence was not extended at the magistrates courts after 1869. So Thomas Bartlett, formerly of the Anchor in Vigo Lane did not move his business to the Wheat Sheaf.

Crown & Cushion, Minley was originally called the Rose & Crown and only changed its name in 1875 -- preumably to reflect the erroneous legend that Thomas Blood, who briefly stole the crown jewels, lived at Minley Warren and was caught at the Crown & Cushion. From 1873 to after 1882 the Rose & Crown was owned by Henry King, the Brewer of Odiham, and the name of the licence holder from 1873 till after 1875 was Thomas Watts. This is interesting since Thomas Watts has hithertofore been considered to be a farmer. The value of the property was 19 guineas. By 1881 the licensee was William Jones.

In 1873 there were two Beerhouses licensed in Yateley which we completely missed in our 1997 Exhibition:

The Lamb was owned by Messrs Taunton but the registers state that it was purchased by Charles Master in January 1874. The licensee was Joseph Harmsworth and there is a note in the registers to say that the premises were closed on 2 Dec 1873 - just before the sale of the property. Joseph Harmsworth is listed in the 1871 census as the Head of Household in a Beerhouse on Cricket Hill. His occupation was given as Bricklayer. It should be possible to locate this beerhouse since it was one of three new dwelling houses "which have lately been erected by the said William White" labourer in 1864 on Cricket Hill.

These second pub we missed was the Forester's Arms worth £15 annually, owned and licensed to Thomas Wynne of Yateley. The Forester's Arms was still licensed in 1881, but then owned by H&G Simonds the Reading brewers, eventually merged with Courage. The licensee in 1881 was John Goddard, which locates the Forester's Arms on Starve Acre. (It is marked on the large scale OS Maps dated 1911, 1931 and 1939 as The Foresters (B.H.) - i.e as a Beer House.)

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