This post is updated as new information emerges. All listings are as noted in original sources, including differing spellings.
The address of The Swan was the Causeway but is occasionally listed as the High Street. This leads to the Causeway.
Above, the property that replaced The Swan.
1808 - Richard and Mary Bowry, husband and wife. Mary was paid with a counterfeit shilling that year by a female pedlar who had been staying at the nearby Barge Pole.
1823 - Robert White "High Street"
1832 - Robert White
1833 - Widow White
1839 - George Cresswell. Son of William Cresswell of The Compleat Angler - more on William here. For more about George see here and his brother William here.
1847 - George Creswell
1861- George Creswell (Cresswell)
1863 - uninhabited. Two lads names Sparkes and Biggins are convicted of stealing lead from the empty properties windows - and recieved 10 and 12 strips of a birch rod for their trouble!
Demolished to make way for new vicarage.
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SOURCES
1853 Mussons and Cravens Commercial Directory
1833 Parish Assessment, transcribed by Charlotte.
Crown Cases Reserved For Consideration And Decided By 12 Judges of England From The Year 1799 to 1824 by William Ordnall Russell. Published 1825 by Butterworth and Son.
Robson's Commercial Directory 1839
Pigots Directory 1823, 1831
Kelly's Post Office Directory 1859
Slaters Royal, National and Commercial Directory 1852 (Isaac Slater 1852)
Numerous historic newspaper articles at the British Library.
Census 1861. Transcription by Charlotte from microfilm.
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