Canterbury Road

Etchinghill

01303 862026

Above picture from postcard, date unknown. Above photos by Paul Skelton December 2008.

The New Inn was one time a coaching inn situated in Etchinghill, the Saxon name for "the hill with the babbling brook". But its original name was Tettinghelde 1240 (Tetta’s slope).

The north end of the pub is a 16th century timber-framed building but re-fronted with brick on the ground floor, the south end being built in the 18th century.

The building was originally two houses but in 1851 Mary Fox transferred her family and beer licence there. In 1853 she obtained a full licence and named the building The New Inn.

Today the premises boasts at being the closest pub-restaurant to the Channel Tunnel.

Visit their web site at:- http://www.new-inn.info/

LICENSEE LIST

FOX George (Shoemaker 1847-55)

FOX Mary 1851-53+

FOX Robert 1859-67

HOGBEN George 1870-78

ROOTES Silas 1882-87

LAWRENCE Isaac 1891+

BUTLER George 1895-22+

JOHNSON Kevin 2011+

From the Post Office Directory 1874

From the Post Office Directory 1882

From the Post Office Directory 1913

From the Post Office Directory 1922