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last updated May 11th, 2022.
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Hepworth Black Horse
North East, 52.34766,0.91084
Closed: between 1959 and 1976
Beck St
grid reference TL 983 761
It's shown on this old OS map from about the end of the 19th century. interactive map
This is shown as a beerhouse on OS maps at least as late as 1959; by the 1976 sheet it's shown as "Black Horse Farm", so must presumably have closed between those dates.
Gallery
Mill 0.96 mile
Royal George 1.02 miles
Vine 1.96 miles
Cock 2.0 miles
White Horse 2.3 milesHistorical interest
Policeman John Blake was sent for by the landlord of the Black Horse Inn, at Hepworth, where he found James Beales and Samuel Leaman very drunk and disorderly, the landlord asked him to remove them. They refused to go and Leaman threatened the officer but he managed to eject them. Outside on the road Beales hit the officer who was obliged to draw his staff and strike him in self defence and afterwards he had to turn Leaman out a second time. The men were discharged on payment of costs, 3s each.Ipswich Journal, March 1870**
In 1937 the pub is listed in Kelly's Directory as one of 220 pubs that was retailing beer that they were brewing.
Landlords
1851: Peter Catton ((Farmer, not publican, North Common, pub not named, Head/Married/65y/born Weston))
1851: Alice Catton ((Beerhouse Keeper, North Common, pub not named, Wife/Married/65y/born Gasthorpe, Norfolk))
1855: Peter Cotton ((Beerhouse keeper, pub not named))
1861: Alice Cotton ((Landlady, North Common, not shown as a pub, Head/Widow/74y/born Norfolk))
1861: Robert Howell ((Labourer, North Common, not shown as a pub, Visitor/Married/52/born Thelnetham))
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
Old OS map reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
