YATELEY'S MALTHOUSE
The Malthouse, Potley Hill
In 1866 a Parliamentary Commission looking into the brewing industry was anxious to find out whether there was still a malthouse and brewery in every village in England. They appear to have been disappointed by evidence that village brewers and malthouses had largely disappeared within the previous 30 years. Certainly that was the case in Yateley and Eversley. William Belsher Parfett's brewery at Eversley Cross had recently ceased after the brewery and its tied houses had been auctioned on 31 Aug 1854. Yateley's only commercial brewery, the Royal Swan Brewery in Blackwater, was still hanging on. However Yateley's main contribution to the brewing industry, the Malthouse on Potley Hill, followed the national trend and ceased operating some 20 years earlier.
In the 1841 census Robert Stone gave his occupation as Maltster. By the 1851 census James Cobbett gave his occupation as farmer of 75 acres with two labourers, and his address as Malthouse Farm. By 1881 the name had changed to The Grange and it had became a crammer for young men trying to get into Sandhurst.
The Yateley Malthouse had existed for at least 300 years. The first written record we have is the Crondal Customary of 1567, but the Malthouse probably existed in some form far earlier.
Back to 1997 Exhibition: Inns, Alehouses & Maltsters of Yateley
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
(c) The Yateley Society, 1997 & 2008
Page Exhib.1997.35
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