SHIP (High Street) Pub of Gravesend

DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

Sort file:- Gravesend, March, 2021.

Page Updated:- Sunday, 07 March, 2021.

PUB LIST

PUBLIC HOUSES

Paul Skelton

Earliest 1539

(Name from)

Ship

Latest 1727

(Name to)

15-16 High Street

Gravesend

Open in 1428 as the "Crown" and changed name to the "Ship" in 1539, lasting under that name till 1727 when it was damaged in a fire and opening as the "Crown" again in 1728.

In 1762 it again changed name, this time to the "Antelope" and remaining with that name till its closure in 1783.

It has been reported in 1614 that "King James I and Prince Charles arrived by barge to dine with the King of Denmark at the “Ship Inn” in the High Street.

This page will be updated as soon as further information is found.

Milton next Gravesend Burials from the register of St Peter & St Paul.

July 1563. Straunger out of the Shipp.

19 Feb 1596/7. Frauncis Foxe of Kendall or Hallifax, a Guest of the Shipp.

29 Mar 1604. Stephan Colte of the Shippe. One of the Jurats of this towne.

7 Nov 1613. William Lorde of ye Shippe, Postmaister, one of the towns Jurats & Churchwarden.

4 Sep 1626. Alice Westram an auncient mayde that wrought [worked] st the Shippe,

4 Oct 1626. Mr Domingo, a German and Doctor of Phisick of Canterbury who, coming sick from London and intending to travaile home, died at the Shippe.

18 Nov 1640. John Taylor, Chamberline at ye Ship.

LICENSEE LIST

COLTE Stephan to 29/Mar/1604 dec'd

LORDE William to 7/Nov/1613 dec'd

http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/ship2.html

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