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Key at the Pier

 

A "Rose Inn" shows in the census of 1545 that it had 12 beds and stabling and that a Thomas Foxley was the licensee and a halfpenny coinage token of 1666 shows that Thomas Green of Dover was at "The Rose" that year. With so many pubs called the "Rose" in Dover over the years, and without further information, it is unknown whether the tokens were actually from the same pub as the one mentioned in 1545.

Another "Rose" from early years was mentioned by Barry Smith from Buckland.

From further research found in the Kent Post of 1732, I may have found the whereabouts of this pub, if indeed it is the same.

From the Kentish Post, May 10-13, 1732

To be Let, the house called the sign of the "Rose," standing upon the Key at the Pier in Dover, late in the occupation of Thomas Hallback, deceased.

 

 

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FOXLEY Thomas 1545

GREEN Thomas 1666

HALLBACK Thomas 1732+

 

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