Bearsted Green

Bearsted

01622 737976

https://www.oakonthegreen.com/

https://www.whatpub.com/oak-on-the-green

Above image from Google, August 2012.

The pub can be traced back to 1665 in an agreement between Daniel Birkman (a distiller), a Thomas Buffield and Christopher Longley, a gentleman of Bearsted. Mr Longley was paid £200 for; ‘All that messuage or tenement known by the signe of the Oake Inn, one stable, two gardens, one orchard, one piece or parcel of land belonging containing estimated two acres'

A further history is on display in the ‘Olde Smoking Room' at the Oak.

Local word of mouth maintains that, historically, parts of the Oak (now the kitchens) were once a holding Gaol for the local courtroom.

Some Famous Inhabitants of the Village: Baroness Orczy (1865 – 1947), creator of The Scarlet Pimpernel; Alfred Percy (“Tich”) Freeman (1888 – 1965), Kent leg spin bowler and the only man to take 300 wickets in an English season. He lived at a house called Dunbowlin.

The pub was sold to Shepherd Neame in 2016.

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HEGEARTY Blake 2015+