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It is stated in Easdown and Rooney's book, "More Tales from the Tap Room" that the house was named after a ship that was wrecked off Dymchurch during a storm. However, the story goes that in 1775 a ship named the City of London was washed over the sea wall and crashed into a pub named the "Seawall Tavern" damaging it quite considerably. To repair the tavern, timbers from the ship were used, and to commemorate the people killed in the accident, the pub was renamed the "City of London." That sounds feasible for that house, but this one was obviously in existence well before that fateful storm.

LICENSEE LIST

HALL Thomas Listed 1741

MULLEN Thomas c1765-71

From More Bastions of the Bar by Easdown and Rooney