KENT ARMS Pub of Nettlestead

DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

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PUB LIST

PUBLIC HOUSES

Paul Skelton

Earliest ????

Kent Arms

Latest 1903+

(Name to)

Waterinbury Road (Nettlestead Road 1871)

Nettlestead

Above map 1896, kindly animated and sent by Dail Whiting.

In 1851 Benjamin Woolly was a widower age 43 and Licensed Victualler and Sarah Baker age 32 was the house-keeper. By 1861 they were married.

Information from local, Dail Whiting says:- The building still stands at the very Bottom of Bow Road on the Nettlestead-Wateringbury boundary. The earliest date around the mid 19th century. The "Kent Arms" name was changed to the "Railway Hotel" soon after 1896. In more recent years its name was changed to the "Railway." Still open.

South Eastern Gazette, Tuesday 1 May 1849.

Nettlestead.

An inquest was held at the "Kent Arms," on the 28th ult., before J. N. Dudlow, Esq., and a respectable jury, touching the death of a fine girl, aged 2 years and 6-months, named Mary Cronk, who was found drowned in a dip well at the back of her father's house, on Friday, the 27th.

It appeared that the child was left with other children by her mother, while the latter went to do her work upstairs, and on missing her she asked where she was, and they said they had not seen her.
On search being made, she was found in the water, quite dead.

The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental Death."

Maidstone Telegraph, Saturday 10 September 1870.

Thomas Sharpe, of Liverpool, was charged with stealing a pint measure, the property of Mrs. S. Woolley, at Nettlestead.

It appears that the prisoner was drinking in prosecutor's house on the day in question. He left in a state of intoxication, and while going along the road fell down, when the measure rolled out of the bag.

He was sentenced to seven days' hard labour.

Maidstone Journal and Kentish Advertiser 22 April 1890.

MALLING PETTY SESSIONS. LICENSING.

An application was made by Mr. C. A. Case, solicitor, of Maidstone, on behalf of Mrs Hutson, widow of Charles Hutson, for the licence of the "Kent Arms," Nettlestead, to be endorsed to her.

The application was granted.

LICENSEE LIST

WOOLLY Benjamin 1851-61+ (widower age 43 in 1851)

WOOLLEY Sarah 1870-71+ (also farmer age 50 in 1871)

HUDSON Charles 1881-Apr/90 dec'd (age 58 in 1881)

HUDSON Louisa Apr/1890-91 (widow age 67 in 1891)

FROUD Thomas 1901-03+ (age 47 in 1901)

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Census

From the Kelly's Directory 1903

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