DOVER KENT ARCHIVES

Page Updated:- Wednesday, 29 July, 2026.

PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest ????

Olive Branch

Latest 1914

Wises Lane

Borden

Former Olive Branch 2018

Above Google image, September 2018 showing what is called Olive House along Wises Lane.

 

Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald, Saturday 18th July 1914.

East Kent Compensation authority.

Fourteen Licences Considered Two Renewed.

The principal meeting of the East Kent Compensation Authority was held on Wednesday at the Sessions House, Longport, Canterbury. Lord Harris presided and the following licensing justices were present:- Mr. H. Fitzwalter Plumtre, Mr. W. A. Lochee, Mr. F. H. Willbee, Dr. S. R. Alexander, Captain W. T. Down, Mr. R. Grant, Mr. J. H. Monins, and Mr. F. E. Burke.

No opposition offered.

In the case of the following houses no opposition was offered to the licences being referred to compensation.

Ashford Division:- "Sportsmans Arms," Egerton (tenants, W. Wood, jun.; registered owners, Messrs. Shepherd, Neame and Co.)

Home division:- "Bridge House," Hackington (tenant and owner, Alice Kate Yeatman.)

Sittingbourne division:- "Olive Branch," Bordon (tenant, Sydney G. Holman; owners, Messrs. Shepherd, Neame and Co.);

"Edward I" (tenants, Alfred Wyles; owners, Messrs. Style and Winch);

"Anchor and Hope," Upchurch (tenant, J. H. Larcombe; owners, Messrs. F. Leney and Co.)

 

I am informed that the building is now called Olive House. However, Terry Davis suggests the following from an email.

 

From an email received, 28 June 2026.

I am working on a documentary about Borden, and I think you have the wrong image for The Olive Branch, I believe it is further down the road, as shown in the attached image.

Borden map 2025

Modern official-address datasets place Olive House in postcode ME9 8LR, together with Wises House, Wises Oast, Oak House, The Hounds and several other scattered rural properties along the northern part of Wises Lane.

By contrast, Oak Cottages, close to the village end of Wises Lane, use postcode ME9 8LN, showing that the compact group near the "Maypole" belongs to a different address section.

The present Olive House is also recorded as a three or four-bedroom attached property of approximately 111–125 square metres, sold in September 2018 for £420,000.

Regards,

Terry Davis.

Olive Branch 2026

Above photo, circa 2026, perhaps showing the correct "Olive Branch." The address of the house on the right is 2 Wises Lane.

2 Wises Lane 2022

Above Google image, 2022.

 

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HOLMAN Sydney G to 1914

 

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