HEN & CHICKENS PH

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1846 Tithe Map plot number:

 356

1896 1:2500 OS Map plot number:

 80

The Hen and Chickens is a public house, situated on the corner where Port Lane enters Bisley Green. In the Tithe Award it was measured at 1 rood and 22 perches.

  

The Hen & Chickens was a public house from early times. Licencees included: John Gyles <1785-87), William Stovell(1788-89), William Seagrove (1790), James Sleet (1791-97), William Smyth (1798-1805), Edward Smyth (1806-26+). In 1892, the clientel is listed as 'Tradesmen, soldiers and working men'.

At the beginning of the 19th century, the Hen and Chickens was owned, and held freehold, by James Nesmith. James died in 1806 and left it in his will to William Smyth and Mary his wife and then to their daughter Mary or between her and any further children of Mary the wife. Mary Smyth the daughter later married Henry Knowls.

By 1846 the Hen and Chickens had passed into the ownership of Neville Reed.

During the 19th and into the 20th centuries, the Hen & Chickens was used as a venue for the Bisley Manor Court (and probably prior to this).