*This post is updated with new information as it becomes available- last update by Charlotte February 2026*
1783 - Edward Neighbour.
1785 - Edward Neighbour. The pub was then owned by Richard Ray, of Cookham.
1787 - Edward Neighbour (died this year) Wife Lydia. He left all his stock of liquors and all else he possessed to Lydia who was the sole executor of his will.
1823 - John Pierce
1832,33 - John Pierce/Pearce
1844 - Thomas Wootten
1847 - William Sawyer.
1848 - William Sawyer is replaced by John Stevenson. William went to the Ship also in West Street. See here. He was the son of James and Charlotte Sawyer, bakers of West Street. See here for more on them and his brother.
1852 - John Stephenson (see also The White Lion). He was a brewer with his wife Catherine in Hayes Place off West Street in 1851. This is odd as by law if he had the license for the Coach and Horses in 1851 he should have lived on the premises not elsewhere. Perhaps he only owned the pub and was not the licensee though that that he is the licensee is implied in sources. Moved to the White Lion West Street 1853.
1853 - Charles Haines (also a boot and shoe maker).
1854 - Charles Haines.
1859 - H Stroud.
1861- 65 Henry Stroud born circa 1800. Also mentioned as a builder 1861. May have moved to the Coach and Horses from a pub in Dean Street. Went bankrupt following illness as had been unable to work. Moved to Cookham Dean in 1866. Also a builder and bricklayer then.
1866 - James Brown .
1869 - 71 Henry Stroud. Was the former landlord of this name back after bankruptcy or was this a different family member with the same name?
1871,72 - Thomas Hall. Fined £1 plus costs for assaulting a man in West Street. He had moved from the Clayton Arms pub in Oxford Road. More on him at that pub here.
1874 - Mr Hall "One of the most ancient of old Marlow Taverns".
1875 - George Bowles. George had first applied for the licence in December of the previous year but the granting of the transfer was delayed as he had misfiled the paperwork! Had some popular bagatelle boards available for customers use.
1877 - George Bowles .
1881 - James Watkins (Born Surrey) (probably took over 1878).
1883 - Listed as Coach And Horses Inn .
1891 - James Watkins.
1893 - James Watkins dies at the Inn aged 71.
1899 - Henry James Watkins, son of above.
1902 - HJ Watkins died 1902 age 49 of consumption. (Second source gives initials as TW but this is incorrect, third gives it as JH!)
1903 - Miss Elizabeth Bourne takes over.
1907 - Elizabeth Richardson.
1911 - William Thomas Richardson.
1915 - Thomas William Richardson qv.
1920 - Mrs Elizabeth Richardson.
1928 - Mrs Elizabeth Richardson.
1933 Augustus Oxley to Edward Lawrence Robbins.
1953 -54 James Knowles, who dies at the pub in 1954, when experiencing difficult personal and financial circumstances.
1956 - Mr D Sellings.
1957 - Mr D and O.A Sellings. Mr Sellings set up the Marlow Tradesman's Darts Club about this time that raised money for the town's old folks to have seaside outings in the summer and a Christmas party in the winter.
1963 - Mr and Mrs D Sellings.
1966 - Bill and Olive Sellings.
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Written and researched by Charlotte harlotte Day and Kathryn Day.
Selected Sources:
1833 Parochial Assessment draft books, in our possession.
1853 Musson & Cravens Commercial directory, Published by Musson & Craven (Compiled 1852) via University of Leicester Archives.
1851,1861,1871,1881 Census transcribed from microfilm.
Bucks Herald 8th November 1866, & 3 Oct 1874. South Bucks Standard - 26 Nov 1909. Copies held at the British Library Archives and accessed via the BNA March 2021.
Kellys Post office Directory Buckinghamshire 1859, 1864, 1869, 1877, 1889,1903,1907,1911,1915, 1928
Records of annual licencing day, court proceedings relating to the premises, and other contemporary press reports accessed via the BNA as above.
1872 - List of beer sellers, Old Bucks County Archives
Slaters Commercial Directory 1852
Pigots Directory 1823
Notes - If you are looking for a particular surname, be sure to check it for entries under all public houses, beer houses, inns, common lodging houses and hotels listed here because landlords in Marlow did sometimes play musical chairs and end up presiding over more than one premises. Names and addresses are listed as they read in original records, even if this differs from the usual. This can help understand common misspellings which may be used to find people and places in other sources where the mistake has been duplicated.
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NB There was also a beer house called the Coach and Houses at Bovingdon Green, described as newly built in 1836.
