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GEORGE HOTEL WATTON index
HIGH STREET
FRONT STREET
WAYLAND HUNDRED BEERHOUSE
WAYLAND LICENCE REGISTER PS 15/3/1 (1937 - 1969)

 

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Licensees :
EDWARD ELLIS 1781
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SUSANNA WRIGHT 1822 - 1830
ROBERT COE 1836 - 1839
WILLIAM ALLEN 1845 - 1846
STEPHEN EMERSON
age 56 in 1851
& architect & surveyor
& farmer 12 acres 1861
1851 - 1861
LEONARD TILLOTT
& farmer 36 acres
1865 - 1871
WILLIAM CLUBB 1875 - 1879
GEORGINA HOLMES 1881
RICHARD GUILLIARD HOLMES
age 30 in 1891
1883 - 1901
   


The Norfolk Chronicle of 1st December 1781 reported ...

To be sold at Auction, by Richard Bacon, By Order of the Assignees of Francis Hicks, a Bankrupt, on Thursday the 6th Day of December, Instant between the hours of two and five in the Afternoon, at the George Inn, Watton, in the County of Norfolk.
Lot 1 All that said Inn, being a capital and well accustomed House, with a Brew-house, Granary, Stables, Yard, Garden, Orchard, Bowling Green, and Inclosure of Pasture to the same belonging and adjoining, now in the occupation of Edward Ellis.
Also a Dwelling House, with necessary Buildings adjoining to the aforesaid Premises, late in the Occupation of Mr John Hicks.


Commercial Hotel & Posting House.

As the GEORGE & DRAGON 1890

Many thanks to Janelle Penney for the 1781 newspaper transcription
taken with permission, from © film provided by the
British Library Newspaper Library
Thanks also to Robert Campbell.