Licensees :
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JOHN PARKER worsted weaver 1760 duffle maker 1763	1760 - 1764
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HENRY KING See opposite.	1830
MARK WRIGHT	by 03.1830 - 1831
HENRY KING	1839
JOHN NEWMAN according to Blyth & White (Man in the Moon)	1842 - 1845
EDWARD BEASLEY Licensee 1845 according to the Magistrates list. (Man & Moon)	1845
ROBERT GRAND	1852 - 1854
Fine of £1 and 11s 6d costs on Tuesday 11th October 1853 (Either for allowing drunkenness or for selling out of hours)
Tuesday 18th August 1857 - Fine of 1s and costs for opening his house before permitted hours on the previous Sunday.
WILL ROBINSON	1865

House no. 338 on 1845 Magistrates list

A Twistering Mill was to be sold at the MAN IN THE MOON as advertised 23rd September 1710.

Listed by Arderon 1745 - 1760 as the MAN IN THE MOON


Given as the MAN IN YE MOON 1760
MAN IN THE MOON 1763, 1830, 1836 & 1854.

HENRY KING is named at the Man in the Moon in 1830 and 1839. (No person named in 1836 directory) However, John Springall "died of apoplexy" on 14th March 1831 and at the following inquest, held at the Man in the Moon, the property is described as the house of Mark Wright. A similar entry in November 1830 regarding the death of Lucy Clarke also records the Man in the Moon as the house of Mark Wright.

A "Free and Easy" was held here on the night of Monday 1st March 1852.
A Mr. Baker apparently assaulted fellow reveller William Fell at the event and was arrested, but the magistrates considered that both complainant and defendant were as bad as each other and the case was dismissed.


The licensee of this house was one of seven who were fined during early October 1853, for allowing drunkenness in their house or for selling at improper hours. The editorial commenting on the enforcement of law thought it would have been better if the clamp-down had commenced with the landlords of houses of a higher class.