Traveller's Friend AKA Traveller's Rest Dean Street

 Updated by Charlotte November 2024

The Traveller's Friend [sometimes mistakenly referred to as the Traveller's Rest which was actually a different pub in nearby Chapel Street. This was itself sometimes mistakenly called the Traveller's Friend], was a small beer house and low lodging house in Dean Street Marlow, an area dense with other sellers of alcohol, and other low lodging houses. The establishment wasn't the absolute roughest of the Dean Street places but it wasn't far off. Repeatedly the men lodging there were described as tramps or vagrants. They often got in trouble for being drunk and disorderly. It should be understood however that the poorer and shabbier dressed you were the more quickly you would be targeted by police if thought to be tipsy. Drunken rich people generally were advised just to go home and sleep it off, it being considered not fair to embarrass them by making them appear in court to answer charges. The sort of destitute people who used this pub would usually receive no such kindness and were often drinking on a empty stomach which meant a rapid absorption of alcohol. 

The pub was fairly close to the corner of Spittal Street and Dean Street, just a few feet from the Cherry Tree, the Jolly Maltsters and later the Chairmaker's Arms too. That was 12 ft from the Cherry Tree and 9ft from The Mint across the road to be precise.

There was only three bedrooms in the property so if you stayed there you weren't getting a bed let alone a room to yourself.

Out back the pub had stabling for three horses though visitors were most likely travellers on foot. Many Dean Street pubs hired out sheds and stables to other residents of the street who had donkeys or ponies for use in their veg hawking, cherry selling or skewer making businesses.

There was a back alley entrance to the Travellers from an alley that also ran behind and could be accessed from the nearby Cherry Tree. This alley was eventually forcibly stopped up as it was seen as a place for bad behaviour such as the exchange of stolen goods or as a means of a quick getaway from the police.

Charles Hoare ran the business from at least 1861 to at least 1864. At other times he ran the Three Horseshoes in Gun Lane and the Bear in Chapel Street both very near the Traveller's. (See this post on his wife Charlotte here). The pub had probably existed as an unlicenced lodging house for some twenty years before Charles took over.

 William Price was the landlord for some time. (Possibly from 1864) He said in an 1871 licencing hearing that he had had a licence to sell beer by retail for some 20 years, although it would appear he was not at the Traveller's premises all of that time- he was at the Cherry Tree in 1861 ( See here ). He was also a fruiterer, a very Dean Street occupation - in the late 1840s there had been an orchard out back of the Cherry Tree and there may still have been one later. At one point he and his wife Lydia had trouble with one of their guests whom William suspected of stealing wood from the yard at the Traveller's. William offered to fight him, Lydia politely asked him to leave but he would not. Police had to be called.

William died at the pub in 1874 . Lydia took over the licence. This was a technical detail as she was already described long before that as the landlady but previously only William's name was on the licence. She ran the premises for only a short time before her tragic and horrific death at Bourne End Station later that year, aged 65. On the way to visit her daughter in Goring, she was dragged under the wheels of a departing train after risking a dart back to it, apparently to retrieve something forgotten in the carriage. Her injuries were such that the elderly lady stood no chance of survival. Her son Thomas took over the beer house. Then by 1877 came a William Price followed by a Henry Price (also a dealer in fish, poultry and veg) landlord until 1894 when a Charles Price took over temporarily. He was considered to have conducted the premises badly, allowing things to get close to riotous inside so that his attempts to take over the pub permanently got short thrift from the magistrates. The revelation by the police that Charles had once been convicted of poaching (albeit 8 years ago) and had recently been seen walking into town with two notorious poachers and an unexplained three dozen dead rabbits didn't exactly help matters. Henry Price had to take back the licence. There then followed an unsuccessful attempt to transfer the premises from Henry to Richard Wilson, a coffee shop proprietor from London. It seems the magistrates did not want someone inexperienced in charge of a house that was described as a haunt of poachers and the favourite drinking hole of all the "lowest" people in Marlow. When it emerged that Richard had not yet managed to sell the coffee business when he applied to take over the Friend, that was it. The only thing worse than an inexperienced host on the premises, was an inexperienced host who wasn't even going to be able to be on the premises  because he had other business to attend to at the same time in a different town. After Richard informed the Bench he hadn't secured a buyer, a hold over was given to George Stroud. 

In 1897 it was licensed as a common lodging house for a maximum of 6 lodgers but anecdotal evidence suggests this limit was often exceeded.

The poor state of the building meant significant repairs were needed in 1901 if authorities were to permit it to continue to operate. During the works the then proprietors Annie and George Stroud (from 1894) had to move out. They were forced to stay in a Dean Street house left empty after it too had been condemned as being unfit for human habitation. In the end, the Travellers Friend was practically rebuilt at a cost of £400 in order to satisfy the authorities. 

Above, now a cycle shop, the former Travellers Friend, largely rebuilt 1901. There was 2 doors on the front and one at the side after the rebuild.

Maybe the Strouds enjoyed their enforced hiatus from their beer house business as some of the Dean Street customers were a lot of trouble. In 1901 Annie was threatened with being hit with a beer cup by an itinerant woman. This woman along with her husband was allowed to purchase beer on the premises but refused lodgings there as they had caused trouble during a previous stay. The complaining woman when turfed off the premises retaliated by smashing the window of the Traveller's Friend.

The next year the spruced up pub ceased to be used as a lodging house. Officially that is. I found a lodger referenced in 1908! The original dedicated lodging house portion attached to the main part of the premises was removed in the renovations. The works also gave the pub a separate jug and bottle entrance for takeaway alcohol. At this point the pub had three bedrooms and a stable that could take 3 horses.

A James Humphrey, who took over from George Stroud in 1902*, was there until 1904. Humphrey passed the premises onto Frederick Clifton after a brief hold over of the licence was granted to William Henry Noble. Fred Clifton passed it on again the following year to William Henry Blair. In 1906 Frederick Elmy took over briefly.  John Henry Westman had it in 1907-1909 and was the final landlord. 

The pub was forcibly closed in 1909 under local measures intended to reduce the concentration of beer retailers in any area. As mentioned above, it was described as 9 yards from the Mint and 12 yards from the Cherry Tree, 73 yards from the Cross Keys in Spittal Square plus 33 from The Verney Arms. It was selling 59 barrels a beer a year at this point.

One of the reasons counted against its remaining open was the high turnover of landlords in the proceeding 5 years of its life.

When the Travellers was closed down in 1909 it became Alfred Lee's grocers (later Chapple's general store) with his dairy behind. David Webb the corn merchant occupied the adjacent building to the left, now demolished, (later Hoars cycle shop.)

*George Stroud and his wife moved to Cambridge Road by 1907 when George was fined for using "disgusting" and "indecent" language in front of several witnesses. He said then in his defence that he had run The Traveller's Friend for 8 years without any complaint against him or his conduct.

Related Posts: 

Travellers REST here

 Pub Related post index here 

Posts about life in Dean Street and neighbouring streets here

More beer sellers than bakers -Temperance in Marlow here

Lists of posts about everyday life in old Great Marlow here

 Many many Marlow publicans and beer sellers etc had connections as a family or as an individual to several different premises. There was a high turnover in licence holders at many locations! To find all mentions of your ancestors here, see the A-Z person index on the top drop down menu. This lists more than 4000 individuals from Marlow's past and new content is added daily. 

Sources:

Censuses from my transcriptions of microfilm images of census pages supplied by the LDS at a Familysearch family history centre.

Bucks Herald 11April, 29th August and 11 July 1874, South Bucks Free Press 22nd September 1865, South Bucks Standard 4th January 1901, 16th February, 13 April and 8th June 1894, 8 October 1897, 4th January 1901, 1st and 22nd August 1902, 27 May and 13th April 1904,26 May 1905 13th March 1908, 05 March 1909 at the British Library via the BNA. Accessed July 2020.

Property deed/sale research and licence hearing reports. 

©Marlow Ancestors. 

Note: There was also a similarly named Traveller's Rest at Wheeler End, and also at Wooburn.

Previously published pub related posts can be found under the Pub Related option on the top drop down menu. Many many Marlow publicans and beer sellers etc had connections as a family or as an individual to several different premises. There was a high turnover in licence holders at many locations! To find all mentions of your ancestors here, see the A-Z person index on the top drop down menu. This lists more than 4000 individuals from Marlow's past and new content is added daily. 

Red Lion, West Street

A short intro into the pub's history.
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.

Other pub, ale house, inn etc posts for Great Marlow and environs see here.

More posts about the historic people and businesses of West Street indexed here.

Post by Charlotte. 

Use the A-Z  person index in the top drop down menu to find every mention of an individual on the blog, however minor. 

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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The Mint, Dean Street Great Marlow

 Updated by Charlotte Feb 2026

The Mint was also a lodging house.

Timeline:

1850- License first granted [Old Bucks County Council Archives]. However it occupied the site of the former Elephant and Castle beer house which was there by 1833.

1851 William Brown.

1853 - William Brown. Fined 10s for opening during illegal hours this year. 

1861- Emma Brown landlady. Lodgers include grocer Thomas Davis and his wife Emma. 

1862- Pub described as having 4 bedrooms and 4 attics, a cellar, shop as well as the taproom and parlour plus out the back a yard, garden, water pump with "good water" and wood house.* It is in "a populous and much frequented neighbourhood". Emma Brown, widow is still the landlady. She was born Emma Clark in Marlow 1811 daughter of Richard Clarke of the Jolly Maltsters Dean Street. She was the widow of Thomas Bowles, with whom she had run the Jolly Maltsters across the road in Dean Street, and William Brown. By 1872 she had transferred to the nearby Cherry Tree pub and lodging house also in Dean Street. She died 1880. Mr Croxon had the lease until Lady Day 1865, and in theory had underlet it to William Weller (presumably of the brewery) but Emma Brown is indisputably the  licensee still. Emma's daughter Elizabeth later spent some 25 years at The Plough, married to the landlord there. 

1864- Emma Brown has moved to the Cherry Tree nearby in Dean Street.

1871- Thomas Bowles, landlord. Son of Emma Brown above. He had moved to  the Jolly Maltsters also in Dean Street by 1872 but returned to the Mint by the 1881 census. Wife Sarah. 

1872- Thomas Bowles who left to go to the Jolly Maltsters 2. James Edwards (James went to many many pubs as temporary landlord to keep things going while permanent replacement for previous landlord was found).

1873- William Price landlord, taking over from William P Edwards who took over the licence briefly from James Edwards. In the same year Charles Bowles fined for being in the beer house during illegal hours.

1881- Thomas Bowles back as landlord if not before. 

1891- Thomas Stroud hauled to court after being found "drunk and notorious" in Dean Street 1891 after popping into the Mint for a drink or twelve. Thomas Bowles still landlord.

1905 - Thomas Bowles retired. It was said he had conducted business there for nearly half a century (ignoring his earlier brief departure) and done so in an "exemplary manner".

1905-8 Samuel Skinner landlord.

1908 John Wiltshire. Property described as having 8 bedrooms. These must have been very tiny.

1912 Charles Bye Tillion. Wife Alice Jane. Charles had previously been a poulterer and tripe dresser in Spittal Square Marlow. In 1914 his lodger John Mason, a horse and dog dealer, arrested on the premises for an unspecified offence. When he was searched he was found to have several dozen  letters in the right leg of his underpants (long ones of course in this era!) which incriminated him over a series of thefts of pedigree dogs. Jailed for 2 months or to pay a £10 fine instead. John had earlier that year escaped conviction for dog stealing at Reading on the grounds of insufficient evidence. The dog in question when brought into court dived into the witness box in joy at being reunited with his proper owner who was giving evidence there. John had lodged at the Mint for some months. 

1919- Forcibly closed down in a district wide suppression of beer house numbers. Last landlord : Charles B Tillion. Mrs Tillion went to the magistrates to appeal against the loss of her family home and business without success. She and her husband moved to The Horns, Chapel Street. 

* Advert South Bucks Free Press 18th July 1862. Copy held British Library and accessed via the BNA June 2020.

South Bucks Standard - 17 March 1905, as above

The Berkshire Chronicle, March 6, 1914. British Library Archives via the BNA.

Any census information: my transcription from microfilm images 

Marlow parish registers, transcription from original books by Jane Pullinger.

Related Posts:

There are posts on this blog about individual families associated with certain pubs, as well as on individual pubs themselves so have a look at the Pub Related index here  & don't forget the Person Index for all mentions of someone on this blog. Find it on the top drop down menu. 

Posts about life in Dean Street and neighbouring streets here

More beer sellers than bakers -Temperance in Marlow here

Lists of posts about everyday life in old Great Marlow here

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The Carr Family of The Compasses, Dean Street

 Richard Carr took on the licence of the The Three Compasses, Dean Street, Marlow - often called by the shortened The Compasses- in 1881. It was a small beerhouse converted from a cottage, which like many such premises in Dean Street, also functioned as a lodging house. The pub had existed for less than a decade, perhaps only in fact for a few months when Richard took over the licence. He moved from a cottage in nearby Queens Road, where he had lived for at least 2 years. If you walked up Dean Street from the town centre, you would have found The Compasses on the police station / Wethered Road side. It was about two thirds of the way between Wethered Road and the post box which stands opposite Queens Road. In other words it was only feet away from the Nags Head, and almost next door to where the Fox and Pheasant used to be. 

Dean Street was an area dense with beer retailing competition and many licensees didn't last long at all.

One thing that can strikes you as odd about Victorian pubs and beersellers is how commonly people without any experience in the industry were given the running of these establishments only to give them up after a year or two and be replaced by someone else just as inexperienced! For many the attraction in getting a beer selling license wasn't selling beer-  meeting your costs was the best some could hope for in their tiny premises. No, what they wanted was the premises of the beer shop which so often came with sheds that could be used as workshops, yards, stabling etc. These the man in the family would use to run what he would consider his "real business" while his wife actually ran the beer selling part to meet their obligations to the brewery. His name would be on the license as it was his job to do all the legal business for the family. For a poor man it was an impossible dream to set up in business on his own account because of the impossibility of affording the rent of suitable premises. But if a pub became available with workshops etc.... 

Of course the dream didn't necessarily match reality and the pub part of the deal would often be more time draining than the family first envisaged and they could not manage the dual businesses.

Richard Carr was originally a shoe maker and cordwainer by trade like his own father Richard senior. Unlike many others without trade experience Richard did make a success of his beer business as well as shoe making. Going back 100 years, another Marlow Richard Carr was a licensed victualler so perhaps it was in the blood!

Living with Richard were his wife Elizabeth and children. Following the usual pattern Elizabeth ran the pub with him and he continued to work as a shoe mender while being the Compasses licensee. The premises had various outbuildings at the licensee's disposal too. The pub had unofficial long term lodgers, it did not offer accommodation for travellers.

Elizabeth had worked as a servant before marriage so she had experience of sorts in the service industry at least. Her maiden name was Moores.

Beer shops were generally too small to host lucrative events and lunches but the Compasses did manage to host the apparently well attended AGM of the Marlow Rovers football club several times in the 1890s. More on the many, many football teams we once had in Marlow here.

By the 1890s Richard was also using his premises as a grocery shop too.

Dean Street could be a lively neighborhood and you could get a fair amount of entertainment just looking out into the street! In 1897 Richard when standing in his own doorway, witnessed a tussle at the door of Mr East's beer house nearby and was called as a defence witness by the customer accused of assault (after being refused more beer). 

By the time of that case Richard was a widower. Elizabeth had died at home in 1893 aged just 56. Their daughter Emily was at home as a housekeeper in 1901. 

The pub was forcibly closed in 1909 with a number of other Marlow premises in an attempt to slash the beer consumption in the area. Both Richard and his brewery initially appealed the decision but the authorities showed determination and they were forced to admit defeat. Richard's premises were converted into a cottage. He became a domestic tenant in them. At auction the following year the premises are described as a old fashioned cottage residence which probably sounded better than former beer shop. Richard received a measly 10 shillings compensation for the loss of a business he had managed for nearly three decades, much less than the brewery and also less than other publicans similarly deprived at the same time. The premises has been demolished. 

Other publicans at the Compasses:

1881 - A Ful(l)brook (who gave way to Richard Carr). This was Andrew Ful(l)brook. Wife Sarah. 

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To find similar posts see the Pub Related menu option. All mentions of any person on this blog are under Person Index.

Sources Included:

South Bucks Standard 4th June 1897 (Richard witness court case) and 3rd August 1894 (footie AGM) Paper held at the British library, accessed through the BNA September 2020.

Census from microfilm transcribed by me.

Death certificate obtained from GRO.

Parish registers.

Marlow Guide 1903 & Marlow Almanack and Directory 1907. 

Marlow's 100+ Beer Retailers - A-Z

Updated Feb 2026

I (Charlotte) list here 116 (and counting!) historic watering holes that existed pre 1950. When a post has been published on this blog focusing on one of these, either the historic pub as a whole or a family who ran it, I will come back to this post and add in the link. You can also use the Pub Related menu find a longer list of posts featuring any of the pubs below including posts where the pub is not the main focus of the post but gets an interesting mention. The most up to date information will be there, especially as to the earliest record of each premises existing. Not included here as it arrived too late is the Britannia in Little Marlow Road. The first reference I have to it is 1957 as the Britannia Hotel. We are currently updating our landlord listings and history timelines for as many pubs as possible into the 1950s. We previously stopped for each about 1920.

Unless stated all premises are in Great Marlow proper but this post also covers some outlying parts of Great Marlow Parish like Bovingdon Green as well as Little Marlow. It does not cover Lane End (which did come under Marlow for licensing) or Bisham. I do have a lot of research about Lane End. See the Pub Related option or Nearby Places Menu to see what Lane End pub content is already up on the blog. 

The date next to each pub is when I personally have found a first reference to it but I have a pile of notes to wade through going back over a decade of research so these dates are not by any means the end word on it. I only give a date if I have myself seen historic evidence for it. I do not include reputed dates to keep things simple. Remember a pub in an old building is not necessarily an old pub!

Ongoing research - not all have a date next to their name yet and not all pubs are necessarily listed yet. For the most up to date starting dates for all premises see the individual posts about them.

See at the end of the post for premises with known certain location but no as yet known premises name.

Sources: Buckinghamshire Archives, National Archives, business papers, adverts, censuses, wills (I have transcribed dozens from the National Archives), trade directories from the University of Leicester, private letters, original parochial assessment notebooks owned by my family and transcribed by me, censuses transcribed by me from microfilm, court cases and more. Research also by Kathryn Day.

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Albert, Moor End Common, see also the Prince Albert.

Alma, Dean Street. 1830. Landlord listing / history timeline here.

Anchor, Dean Street, mainly a licensed lodging house later. C1841-1876 at least. See also Crown and Anchor, which is not the same premises. Landlord listing and history of the Anchor here.

Angel, High Street 1551+ later called the King's Head. Still there 1653 when it's owned by John Moore senior, and believed to be sold by his brother Robert on former's death in 1673, to Thomas Winckle. (Will of Robert Moore, National Archives) In two tenements 1735. 

Antelope, alternative name for the Roebuck.

Arms, The - brief name change for the Verney Arms. 

Bank of England AKA Ye Olde Bank of England AKA The Bank, Dean Street. 1840. New built then but nothing to say not on site of older premises. Landlord listing here.

Barge Pole, Church Passage. 1833. Closed 1873. Historic landlords here.

Bear 

1.) High Street. 1614 -1735 at least. Landlords listing here.

2.) Chapel Street 1830+. Primarily a lodging house later in the century.  List of landlords for this location here.

Black Boy

1 High Street, West side. 1602+ Converted into malt house by George Bruere esq by 1735. 

 2. Church Passage From 1780 (at least) to 1872. Historic landlords here.

Black Horse

1.) Chapel Street. 1833+. Closed 1929. List of landlords here. Probably at two different locations within Chapel Street. 

2.) Little Marlow. 1887.

Black Lion, Well End. 1839 is my first reference but it is believed to be far older - list of landlords here.

Blacksmith's Arms

1.) Handy Cross. 1847. Landlords listing here.

2.) Well End, Little Marlow 1890. Closed 1933.

There was a Jolly Blacksmiths at Lane End which sometimes was also referred to as the Blacksmiths Arms.

Blue Banner

1.) St Peter's Street. 1833. Last known mention at this location 1862. Also a grocers shop and tailor's premises (yes at same time. Few small pubs like this generated income enough on their own to support even the thriftiest family!) . Owned until 1850 by Samuel Barnes, ardent political supporter of the Claytons (who used blue banners as an election badge).

2.) West End [West Street, though more Henley Road in this case]1889 but said to be well established then. A little less than 200 yards from the Hand and Flowers but nearer town. A wethereds beerhouse which they were willing to give up that year in return for a new licence elsewhere but that was refused.

Blue Flag AKA the Old Blue Flag, Handy Cross. 1833. Note: this was also a blacksmith's premises. History and landlord listing here. There was also a Blue Flag at Cadmore End.

Bonnet So Blue AKA the Bonnet O' Blue, The Blue Bonnets, West End / West Street. More info here, landlords here.

Bowl and Pin. 1773 first mention, but said to be well established by then. Occupied the former "Old Bridge House", St Peters Street which belonged to the Bridge wardens. This was not the same as the now existing Old Bridge House. Demolished 1790. Seems to have been a good sized premises.

Brewery Tap. 1868. Taproom of a brewery.  Charles Edward Gibbons in charge 1872. 

The Brick Kiln. Moor Common. 1880.

Bricklayer's Arms. Chapel Street. 1831. List of landlords here. 

Bull Head. High Street. 1628. John Clarke landlord 1686. Premises still there in 1717 though then it was part empty with the rest let to Mr Richard Cotterell. He apparently occupied the whole in 1704. Described as two tenements 1735. 

Carpenter's Arms, Spittal Street. 1830 (but it's complicated see post). List of landlords /history timeline  here.

Carrier's Arms, Wycombe Road. 1848? Briefly named instead the Star Of The Town, possibly giving rise to Star Meadow by it. (A beer house name inspired it seems by the launch of the Marlow-built boat Star of The Thames - see here ) Closed 1939. Historic landlords /history  here, plans to move it (or its licence) here

Chairmaker's Arms, Dean Street. 1874 . Also one of these Lane End. History and landlord listing for the Marlow pub here.

Chequer And Anchor - 1809. Location uncertain. Perhaps Crown and Anchor meant? Or the Chequers? However similarly named pubs existing at the same time is a Marlow speciality! 

Chequers AKA Chequers Inn AKA Chequers Hotel, High Street. 1800. Early spelling: Checkers. Landlord listing /history timeline here.

Cherry Tree, Dean Street. 1830?  Also a doss house. Probably earlier in that capacity. Really did have a cherry tree in the yard originally, in fact a whole orchard was at one time behind the premises. Have ruled out this being the Royal Oak Dean Street that appears on the Parish Assessment of 1833. Landlord listing here. 

Clayton Arms, Oxford Road. 1838. There was also one at Lane End, which came under Marlow for licensing, as did one at Moor Common. A list of landlords for the Marlow pub with a history timeline can be found here, post about temperance meetings held outside here, and the Clayton's slate clubs and benefit societies here.

Coach and Horses

1.) West Street 1783. Landlord listing here.

2.) Bovingdon Green (small beerhouse). Newly built in 1836.

Compasses, Dean Street. 1861.  Originally the Three Compasses but often shortened. A post about the Carr family of this pub is available here.

Compleat Angler, AKA Angler's Hotel AKA Angler's Inn AKA The Anglers   Other side Marlow Bridge. Technically Bisham but more often referred to as Marlow! 1766 but definitely much earlier. Occasionally The Jolly Anglers (multiple sources): Post about Cres(s)well family who ran it for half a century here, Biography of landlord Charles Miller Foottit here , Biography of landlady Mary Ann Parslow here, landlord listing  here, history in 1900's here.

Crooked Billet, Sheepridge, Little Marlow (also given as Flackwell Heath) 1860, but older as licenced premises.  Historic landlords / history post here. 

Cross Keys, Spittal Street. An inn existed of that name 1764 but I am not certain it was in Spittal Street as it was by 1834. See post on 1700s landlord Sylvester Law's will here. Historic landlords listing here. Biography of landlord's daughter Nellie Creswell, amateur Victorian sportswoman here

Crown, Little Marlow. There was also a Crown Inn Lane End.

Crown and Anchor, Oxford Road. 1833. See also The Anchor. List of landlords here.

Crown and Broad Arrow later the Lower Crown, High Street. 1691 but gone by 1830. See post on the Crown Inns of Marlow here and also will of William Dark here.. Landlord listing here.

Crown and Cushion, Dean Street. 1835. List of landlords here and info on Frederick and Harriet Brookes here.

Crown Inn later Crown Hotel originally the Upper Crown* Market Place.  . For more info see here, and landlord listing here A post about the Crown fire and the tragedy of Susan West land lady, can be found Here.

Dog and Badger, Medmenham. Landlord listing /history timeline here.

Duke of Cambridge, Queens Road. Can also be described as in New Road, the earliest name for Queen's Road, and as in Marefield which is the area of Marlow that Queen's Road was cut through. 1866. Landlord listing here (NB Several other roads in Marlow have been known as New Road)

Duke's Head, West Street. On Oxford Road turning side of street. 1761.

Elephant and Castle, Dean Street. 1833. All about landlord Eusebius Windsor here.

Feathers. High Street. 1686.

Ferry Boat AKA Ferry Boat Hotel, Medmenham. 1833. Landlord listing here.

Ferry Hotel, Spade Oak AKA Ye Ferry Hotel. 1889. See above also. 

Fighting Cocks, Dean Street. From at least 1840. Landlord listing /history timeline here.

Fishermen's Retreat, St Peter Street. Opened 1873 in a converted house after the licensee William Sparkes moved in from the Barge Pole in Church Passage which had been sold by the property owner and was likely to be demolished. New premises forcibly closed 1915 as fully licensed house, continues as hotel. Often given as Fisherman's Retreat. Landlord listing here which also includes  links to posts about the Sparkes family. 

Forrester's Arms, Marefields = 1867. In that year the proprietor who was also a basket maker and rod maker, went bankrupt. Pub was gone by 1872.

Fountain Head, High Street. AKA The Fountain. 1833. Where the Hog's Head/The Old Brewery pub is now but that is a modern building. Became a lodging house later, briefly. Some landlords listed here Very close to Three Tuns in it's High Street location. 

Fox, West Street. 1833. I think that this became the White Lion before 1861 but possibly with an in between period of being non licenced premises.

Fox and Pheasant. Dean Street. 1860. Very likely older.  

George Inn, The - 1721, unknown street location currently. See also George and Dragon. 

George and Dragon, Causeway AKA The George. New name for the Roebuck 1835. Not the same as the earlier George Inn. There may also have been a much earlier unrelated George and Dragon in the High Street. List of landlords can be found here Brief history of premises here Grave of landlady Annie Moon here.

Greyhound Inn AKA Greyhound Hotel, Spittal Street. 1819, earlier under the name The White Horse. List of landlords / history timeline here.

Gunmakers Arms - 1660's. 

Hand and Flowers AKA Hand of Flowers, Henley Road. 1869. But probably considerably older, not necessarily under this name all the time.

Hare and Hounds, Red Pits. 1847. Landlords and timeline here.

Harrow. 1843. Top end of West Street, probably in fact what we would call Henley Road. That this is an earlier name for the Hand and Flowers is not impossible. Our earliest known landlord for the Harrow was in the premises but not listed as a beer seller in 1841. Last known reference to the pub 1851. Later references to The Harrow at Chapel End have been confirmed by us to refer to The Plough. 

Hope, High Street. 1850 (purpose built). Historic landlords /history here.

Horns, Chapel Street. 1831, but a very old building so likely far older. Landlord listing /history here.

Jolly Cricketers, Bovingdon Green. 1830. AKA The Cricketers Arms. Information about this pub in the 1800s is included in the Bovingdon Green history post here and landlord listing here

Jolly Maltsters, Dean Street. 1823. Historic landlords listings  /history here.

King's Arms, High Street, East side 1681, not same as Kings Head. 

Kings Head

1.) Great Marlow High Street. 1684+ Last heard of 1717. Was close to the Three Tuns. Formerly called the Angel. Will of one time landlady Joan Pomfret / Pomfrett here. She was also at the Three Tuns probably.

2.) Little Marlow.

Mint, Dean Street. 1850. Forcibly closed 1919. Historic landlords /timeline here.

Nag's Head, Dean Street. 1845. See here for more on this pub including historic landlords. Election fraud case involving landlord Thomas Frith here.

New Inn, West Street. 1863, 1865.  One of the Marlow pubs with the scantiest trace in records. The "Three Tuns New Inn" was how the Three Tuns in West Street was initially referred to when it moved from the High Street to West Street. This move however was completed by 1833. In 1863 the "New Inn West Street" was up to let with corn and coal trade/side business and again with the same side business in the spring of 1865. The only known landlord William Moss was a carpenter (rather than coal or corn seller) as well as publican. He must have been the one who took on the premises in spring 1865. He died there unexpectedly a few months later  Did the habit of calling the Three Tuns the "New" Inn really last so long after it arrived in West Street? We have a little gap in our Three Tuns landlord listings into which William Moss would fit, however it is also possible that the 1860s "New Inn" West Street was nothing to do with the "Three Tuns New Inn" and was instead an entirely different premises.

North Star, Queen's Road. 1868.  Closed 1871 after the magistrates refused to renew the licence.

Old Red Lion, Little Marlow. 1839.

Plough Inn, Little Marlow Road. Built 1854. Appears to have been built on site of earlier simple beer shop with an unknown name from circa 1825. Historic landlords and history here. (References to The Harrow public house in Marlow 1869 and 1872 have proven to be relating to the Plough, by cross referencing landlord and location information.)

Prince Albert, Chapel Street. 1838. List of landlords here. 

Prince of Wales, Mill Road. Can also be described as in South Place, Mill Lane and Platts Road! It is at the juncture of South Place and Mill Road, has previously been recorded as Mill Lane, Strong Beer Acre and Platts Road/Row. 1861. Landlord listing here.

Queen, Quoiting Square. 1833. This was renamed at some point between 1833 and 1841, the Queen having been previously the Three Loggerheads. Historic landlords listings here.

Queen's Head, Marlow - 1660's.

Queen's Head, Well End / Little Marlow. Address variously described. 1889. But much older building.

Railway Hotel, Station Road. Built 1873/4. Now the Marlow Donkey. Landlord listing  /history timeline here, grave of landlady Sarah Ann Porter  here.

Red Cow. 1843. Also one of these Wooburn Green. The separate existence of a pub of this name in Marlow is questionable, the only doubtful entry on this list. My research suggests the 1843 reference to the Red Cow in Marlow was a misplaced reference to the Wooburn Green business.

Red Lion, West Street AKA the Lion 1832. Not same as Olde Red Lion, Little Marlow. Sometimes called Red Lion Hotel. Image of pub and of the gravestone belonging to former landlady Priscilla Bowen here. Will of landlord Thomas Bowen senior here. Grave of Lester children (landlords offspring) here, landlord listing here.

Rising Sun, Chapel Street. 1833. AKA The Sun beershop. There was an Old Sun, Lane End. List of landlords of Marlow one here.

Roebuck, Causeway. 1754. Renamed the George Inn aka George and Dragon 1835. Landlords listed here

Rose and Crown,

1. "against Oxford Lane and the Quoiting Place" 1687.

 2. Dean Street,  1833+. Landlords here.

3. Coldmoorholm, Little Marlow. 1789. 

Royal Exchange, Dean Street. 1860. But possibly from 1858. I believe it closed in 1869 when John Langley was refused a full licence and opened the "newly built" Verney Arms a month later instead. Perhaps he originally intended to take the Royal Exchange name with him but decided on something more topical?  Landlords here.

Royal Oak

1.) Bovingdon Green. 1794 but certainly older. List of landlords 1794 - 1907 with some gaps  /history timeline here.

2. Dean Street 1833. Elizabeth Bowles. Initially thought to be a misinterpretation of the nearby Cherry Tree sign by the parish assessor of 1833, partly because Elizabeth Bowles is in possession and her family also have a long association with the Cherry Tree. However the Royal Oak appears to be further up, in the position later occupied by the Travellers Friend, not quite as far along as the Jolly Maltsters. Further research to follow. 

Royal Standard, West Street. 1869+ In the subdivided Albion House. AKA the Union Jack. Landlords here and more info here.

Sadler's Arms / Saddler's Arms, West Street. 1853. Landlord listing here, timeline history here

Ship Inn, West Street. AKA Olde Ship 1833 but much older building clearly long in use as inn although not necessarily under same sign. Said to have been built using ship timber, a claim found for many an old Marlow premises. A post on the Rimmel family of this pub was published on this blog here, landlord listing here, Biography of the Reeves who before they ran the pub were in charge of the workhouse here.

Six Bells, Quoiting Square. 1782. Small beerhouse. Will of landlord William Ward here. Landlords listing here.

The Star - 1867. Uncertain location. Could be the Star Of the Town below. See also the North Star. 

Star of the Town, looks an earlier name for the Carrier's Arms, Wycombe Road. May well have been inspired by the launch of Marlow built Star of the Thames too. 1865+

Swan, Causeway. 1831. List of landlords here.

Three Horseshoes 

1.) Gun Lane 1833. Closed 1852. Landlords and history here.

2.) Burrough's Grove. 1833. AKA The Horseshoes. Landlords here.

Three Loggerheads, Oxford Road. 1833. This, the Six Bells and Carpenter's Arms were all within a few doors of each other with the Crown and Anchor not much farther away not to mention the various pubs in West Street. Before Dean Street took over the mantle Quoiting Square was beer central for Marlow! I think that this became the Queen pub at some point between 1833 and 1841, most likely because of the coronation of Victoria. The Three Loggerheads was a joke pub sign seen elsewhere too. Loggerhead was a byword for a fool especially a stubborn one. The pub signs would show only two of them with the implication any unwitting person standing underneath it made the third. See the Queen for a link to landlords.

Three Tuns:

1.) High Street. 1695 (possibly 1683) Occupied at least two different locations-  first in the High Street before a relocation to West Street but probably actually three locations as it seems to have moved within the High Street before it went to West Street.

2.) West Street. By 1833. 

Landlord listings for both here.

Traveler's Friend- Dean Street near corner of Spittal Street. It was also referred as the Traveller's Rest which is very confusing as there were two other pubs in Great Marlow area with that name. One in nearby Chapel Street and one in Wheeler End. THESE WERE NOT ALL THE SAME PUB. They were run by different breweries and had different tenants at the same time. The Dean Street pub curiously said to be behind another building at one point. It had an entrance by a back passage from Dean Street (the passage behind the Cherry Tree pub at the start of Dean Street which was forcibly stopped up later as it was believed to be used for criminal purposes). A post about this pub is available here and landlord listings here.

Traveler's Rest 1.) 

Chapel Street. 1846. Also a marine store. NOT THE SAME PUB AS THE TRAVELER'S FRIEND, though the Friend sometimes was accidentally given as the Rest, and the Rest as the Friend. The breweries which owned them were different. The proper name I have given to both in this post was as per how their breweries referred to them in Buckinghamshire Council Archives 1872 list of pubs owned in Marlow.  List of landlords here.

Traveler's Rest 2.) Wheeler End. 1874.

Traveler's Rest 3.) Temporary name change for the Carpenters Arms 1843 when the outgoing landlord took the Carpenter's Arms sign with him and the new landlord thought he could not continue to use that name.

Two Brewers, St Peter St. 1750. See post on the unhappy marriage of Richard (the landlord) and Sarah Bye here. Landlord listing here.

Turks Head AKA Saracen's Head, High Street. 1820. West Street side. Defunct by 1861. Exact location known. Some proprietors listed here.

Union Jack see Royal Standard.

Verney Arms, Dean Street. Most likely 1869. For explanation and  landlord listing see here.

Volunteer, West End [West Street next door but one to the Hand and Flowers.  Described as having been out of use for a little while in 1889. Attempts  by the brewery to resurrect it were unsuccessful, as the licensing authorities did not believe Marlow needed another beerhouse. Biography of landlord Edward Hatton can be found here Landlord listing here. Wethered pub.

Waterman's Arms

 1.) St Peter's Street. 1851 but likely older. Historic landlords here.

2.) Marlow Road, Bourne End. 1858.

Wheatsheaf, Station Road/ Strong Beer Acre/ Strong Beer Lane. Same location just different ways of giving the address. 1841. A post about the Way family of the Wheatsheaf is available here.

Wheelwright's Arms, AKA the Wheelers Spittal Street. 1833. Landlord listing here.

White Hart 1.) Chapel Street. 1732. A post about one of the families involved in this pub, the Chapple/Chappell family, can be found here And a list of landlords here.

2.) Spittal Square. List of landlords here. At end of 1830s became almost certainly the Cross Keys.

White Horse 1.) West Street. 1755+ Several other mentions in the mid  1700s, a few in the 1780s and then again in the early 1800s but without a street address. Note that in 1792 Robert Boothby founded a charity for the poor to be paid out of a building near the Market House "FORMERLY the sign of the White Horse."  However there are mentions of a White Horse as a working pub after this-up to 1818 which means a change of location for the pub or as often happened a disused pub name being given to a new and unrelated premises. A much earlier Boothby bequest may relate to the Crown but more disambiguation needed. 

2.) Property deeds relating to the Greyhound in Spittal Street which is first recorded by us under that name in 1819 say that it was previously known as the White Horse. This explains the early 1800s mentions of a White Horse with the mid 1700s references being for an earlier West Street business near the Market Place. 

White Lion, West Street. Was probably originally The Fox, if not it was very close to the latters position. The Fox was first recorded in  1833, The White Lion in 1861 though I suspect it was operational in the 1850s. Forced to close 1909. Landlord listing here.

Windmill Inn, Medmenham. Near church there.

Note:

PREMISES WHOSE NAME IS UNKNOWN

1.)There was a beer seller in a very old building in the churchyard demolished when the old church was knocked down in the 1830s. I can't find my note referencing this premise's name but it was none of those above.

2.)There was also it seems an early 1800s pub in Chapel Street (specific building known) of unknown name which closed by the late 1820s.

3.)William Plumridge had a pub in Cambridge Terrace in 1864. Probably the one that became the first Cottage Hospital.

4.) There was a tiny pub in West street in the 1830s and 40s whose close location I know but not the name of it. None of those above.

5.) Small pub in St Peter's Street converted from a cottage. This pub ran 1838-52. Long demolished.

With additional research by Kathryn. 

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