The will of Thomas Bowen senior one of the publicans of these premises, who died in the 1840s can be read here. He was running the pub by 1824.
Thomas junior his son ran the pub after Thomas Senior retired. Thomas Junior married Priscilla Dorrel of Kingston Oxfordshire in 1832.
The next year the pub building with the yard, garden and stables that went with it were valued at £12 a year for rental purposes.
Either Thomas senior or junior was one of the executors of the will of Thomas Plumridge of nearby Quoiting Square in 1816.
The pub was a stopping off point for some early coaching services and also offered accommodation to travellers. Until the 1840s it hired out horses and wheeled vehicles.
In 1868 a man staying in the pub for a night made off with 3 of the property's sheets and sold them in High Wycombe. He was finally caught and apprehended in Cambridge! A sentence of 3 months hard labour was handed down to him.
The grave of Priscilla Bowen nee Dorrel, wife of Thomas Bowen junior.
Full historic landlords listing for this pub here.
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Sources:
Will Thomas Bowen at the National Archives, transcribed by me.
Windsor and Eton Express Jan 25 1868. Copy held at the British Library. Accessed via the BNA March 2021.
Property records held by my family and transcribed by me.
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