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Longage Hill
Rhodes Minnis
Bagshaw Directory 1847 mentions a "White Horse" in the Elham pages, but
refers the vicinity to be at Rhodes Minnis. However, I have found an earlier
reference to the pub from the Kentish Weekly Post dated 1823, as below.
Reference in the 1901 census says the premises was in ruins.
There is another "White
Horse" at nearby Elmsted, but it is not the same pub as different
licensees are mentioned for the same year and both the pubs were auctioned
in the same batch of lots.
Information acquired from the Lyminge newsletter, May 2009. Mike Athow
says the following:- "The White Horse which stood on the footpath that runs
from Longage Hill to White Horse Lane. Old maps show that this footpath was
a road in previous times. Mike remembers that the old pub sign hung in a
tree in the field, for many years, having been placed there after the pub
was pulled down sometime early in the twentieth century. It seems that the
sign was lost when the tree was cut down.
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From the Kentish Weekly Post or Canterbury Journal 7 September 1819.
VALUABLE BREWERY,
Free Public Houses and other estates,
To be Sold By Auction, By Messrs. White, (Without Reserve).
Pursuant to certain orders of the Vice Chancellor of Great Britain, and
before the Major part of the Commissioners named and authorised in and
by a Commission of bankrupt awarded and issued against Matthew William
Sankey, of the City of Canterbury, brewer, dealer and chapman, at the
Guildhall, of the said city of Canterbury, on Wednesday next, the 22nd
day of September next, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, (subject to
such conditions of sale as shall be then and there produced.)
The following very Valuable Freehold Estates, in Lots.
Valuable Brewery free public houses and other Estates to be sold by
auction by Mrs White without reserve. Lot 27. A Messuage, called the "White Horse, barn, stable, garden,
orchard, yard, backside, and two acres of land, with the appurtenances
situate in the parish of Elham, at or near Rhodes Minnis, in the said
county, and now in the occupation of Thomas Egerton. |
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Kentish Weekly Post or Canterbury Journal 04 April 1823.
DIED.
March 31, at Elham, Mrs. Egerton, aged 96, formerly landlady of the
"White Horse," Rhodes Minnis.
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From the Dover Telegraph and Cinque Ports General
Advertiser, Saturday 1 February, 1840.
STAG HUNT
One of the stags presented to the officers of the 11th Light
Dragoons, by their Colonel, the Earl of Cardigan, was, yesterday,
started from the meadow of the "White Horse" at Rhodes Minnis, and went
off by Sibton House, through the park, to Lyminge mill, up the street,
to the left, at the back of the Rev. Mr. Price's house, over his knolls,
to Postling wood; from thence by Iching Hill, to Tetter's Leese, and Mr.
Hambrook's lower barn, Skettersfield, through Ottings, and to Boich
Orchard, where he was taken, and conveyed back to the "White Horse,"
after a fine run of one hour and a half, over a distance of 11 or 12
miles, during which he took eleven leaps. The field consisted of between
40 and 50 persons, including the officers of the 11th Light Dragoons,
who were all highly delighted with the chase, and the hounds belonging
to Mr. Stephen Kelsey, sen. of Lyminge, who, at the extraordinary age of
83, was present and heartily enjoyed the sport.
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LICENSEE LIST
EGERTON Thomas 1819+
EGERTON Mrs pre 1823
DODD Mark 1847-51+
(age 44 in 1851 )
LAKER George 1867+
CHAMPION William 1901+ (market gardener age 49 in 1901)
From
Bagshaw Directory 1847
Census
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