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Publican in 1827 was William Smith.

It's 1827 valuation shows it as a freehold public house, occupied by William Smith, with a woodbarn, stable and cart sheds, spacious yard, garden and pightle containing together about two acres. A few yard distant from the above is an Enclosure of pasture called Basses Pightle and a little further are two closes of land called Monk's Pightle and Longland's, the former is meadow and the latter arable; they contain together two acres.

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