6 (Old) High Street

Folkestone

The former "Folkestone Arms" is shown as the building next to the dilapidated former coach house shown centre-left.

Pigot's directory of 1839 gives the "Folkestone Arms" as also being an excise office.

The pub was originally called the "White Hart" but in September 1778 new licensee James Bateman was instructed by the Earl of Radnor to rename it the "Folkestone Arms." The pub closed in 1846, one year before the "Folkestone Arms Tavern" was opened. It is believed there is no connection between the two.

LICENSEE LIST

BATEMAN James 1772-86

JANAWAY George 1786-1808

JANEWAY Elizabeth 1808-26 ( & Posting)

JANAWAY James 1826-30

HART Daniel Listed 1833+

CORK Daniel 1839

BROWN Ann 1838-40+

BAMFORD John 1842-46

From the Pigot's Directory 1823

From the Pigot's Directory 1839

From the Pigot's Directory 1840

From More Bastions of the Bar by Easdown and Rooney