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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 15 NE 1138 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Crown Inn. 57 Burgate |
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Summary
Former inn which was destroyed by enemy action in 1942.
| Grid Reference: | TR 1510 5777 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR15NE |
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| Parish: | CANTERBURY, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- INN (Post Medieval - 1700 AD to 1900 AD (at some time))
Full description
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This inn stood in Burgate on the corner of Iron Bar Lane until its destruction by enemy action in 1942.
The inn was known as the CROWN ALE house in the 18th century and belonged to the City Corporation. In 1800 a City rent book stated the inn had been sold to Baldock and Rigden for £7.10.0d.
Licencing lists and directories give the following as innkeepers;
1792 Edward Philpot
1807 Stephen Philpott
1846-49 James pearce
Wilmot, E., 1992, Eighty Lost Inns of Canterbury (Monograph). SKE29747.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | --- | Monograph: Wilmot, E.. 1992. Eighty Lost Inns of Canterbury. |
