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Monument details
| HER Number: | MKE91488 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | General Havelock. 5 White Horse Lane. |
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Summary
Formerly an inn, the site is now covered by a car park and a salvation army temple on top.
| Grid Reference: | TR 1481 5781 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR15NW |
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| Parish: | CANTERBURY, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- INN (Post Medieval - 1838 AD to 1890 AD)
Full description
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The site of the inn is difficult to locate now as there is a car park and salvation army temple on the possible site today.
Initially the inn on this site was first mentioned in the 1838 Directory as the Painters Arms, 5 White Horse Lane when the innkeeper was John Rose.
After the relief of Cawnpore the name of the inn was changed to the hero of the day 'General Havelock' and in 1862 an application for a licence was refused, it was later granted. Innkeepers at this time were: 1862 William Taylor; 1865 C. Cornelius; 1867 William Godden.
The Directory of 1882 shows that the hero of Cawpore had been forgotten and the inn renamed after the lane The White Horse. Although it is believed that the lane had previously been named after a much earlier inn. The inn appears to have closed c. 1890 as no licence appears to have been issued after that date.
Innkeepers: 1882 Charles R Miles; 1888 Thomas Robertson; 1889 George Ashdown.
Enderby, H. M., 1950, The Inns of Canterbury Parts I & II, Lecture to the Canterbury Archaeological Society (Unpublished document). SKE29964.
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. |
| --- | Unpublished document: Enderby, H. M.. 1950. The Inns of Canterbury Parts I & II, Lecture to the Canterbury Archaeological Society. |
