Anchor Inn, 59 High Street, Wingham
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Anchor Inn, 59 High Street, Wingham
Image: © Jo and Steve Turner Taken: 8 Jul 2016
Grade II Listed public house, built in the sixteenth century or earlier as a hall-house according to archaeological assessment but formerly two cottages built in 1645 according to the inn's website. It became an Ale House and then early in the eighteenth century, presumably at the same time as the extensive rebuilding, a coaching inn with stage post room. A licence was granted in 1760 according to the inn's website. It was around this time that many Justices imposed closing hours and Sunday closing as part of the licence except for the 'bona-fide traveller' and a number of ale houses converted to inns but it seems other external forces brought about the changes here. The first recorded landlord of The Anchor was one John Puttock, a farmer of the parish of Wingham. A search of my directories produced; 1847 Hart Sandcroft; 1855 C Smith; 1858 George Andrews; 1882 John Gulliver Green; 1891 only P.H. listed is the Dog; 1903 Mrs Sarah Cork; 1913 Ernest Sydney Cork.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.273546
Longitude
1.214802