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1617 (Feoffment) Refers to site and building – not as an inn. The Town & Manor has no deeds, so history largely gleaned from records of adjacent properties (20 Bridge Street and 19 Bridge Street)

1753-61 (QR) Thomas Potinger for his house late Atkin's, q.r. 5d.

1754 (Deed 20BS] ".. on the E side of the High St. (now Bridge Street), bounded by dwelling of William Atkins and the n (sic!) of Thomas Pottinger on the N and with the tenement of Joseph Wineatt formerly Thomas Andrews and then Moses Burch on the S with Common on the E."

1774-80 (QR) William Alexander for house late Thomas Atkin's, q.r. 5d.

1776 (Deed 20BS) John Toe

1778 (Deed) A Release describing "a Messuage or Tenement then in the possession of William Tuttle and now of John Toe and then and now used as a Workhouse for the parish of Hungerford on the north side thereof."

c.1778 (NH) Workhouse moved to "High House", Charnham Street [now Charnham Close]

1779 (Deed 20BS) Refers to "old workhouse, lately in possession of Ed. Brooks". ".. on the one side adjoining the house formerly Ed. Westall (now Ed. Dismore) and on the other side the house formerly the Worhouse, and then the Old Workhouse, lately in occupation of Ed. Brooks".

1781 (CL) ?Charles Gibbs

1795-1804 (QR) M. Brooks for house late Atkin's, q.r. 5d.

1799 (Deed 20BS) A Release refers to the adjoining north property as "the dwelling house formerly called the Workhouse and now the Old Workhouse as now or lately in the occupation of Edward Pocock and John Sayer."

1805-17 (QR) Mordecai Brooks (deleted)  William Worrell for house late Green formerly Atkin's, q.r. 5d.
1810 (Deed 20BS) Probate of the will of Mordecai Brooks.

1818-32 (QR) William Worrell for house late Green formerly Atkin's, q.r. 5d.

1819 (EAM) Marked as it is today – "John of Gaunt", with footpath as Borden Carriage to swing bridge or Cow bridge.

1821 Feoffees often held their meetings there.

1826 (Deed 20BS) A Conveyance describes the property as "bounded on the north by a public house called the "John O'Gaunt".

1832 (QR) Mary Brooks for house formerly old Workhouse, q.r. 5d.

1836 (QR) ?Constable for house late Mary  Brooke's, q.r. 5d.

1841 (CS) John Walker for "Lancaster Arms"

1847 (Kelly) Mrs Cicely Walker, "Lancaster Arms", High Street.

1847 (CL) Feoffees of Hungerford (own); Widow Walker (occ)

1851 (CS) John Welch (34), innkeeper. (John Welch was Landlord at The Bear soon after)

1861 (CS) John Annetts (34), innkeeper
1861 (CL) Feoffees of Hungerford (own); John Annetts (occ)

1864 (Billings) John Welch, Duke of Lancaster Arms, victualler and licensed to let horses.

1866 (Lacks Directory) Friendly Brothers Society held at "Duke of Lancaster Arms Inn".

1869-91 John Annetts, brewer and innkeeper, Lancaster Arms.

1896 (CL) Feoffees of Hungerford (own); Albert Charles Hance (occ)
1900 (Cosburn's Dir) A C Hance "John o' Gaunt, Bridge Street".
1908 Now Town & Manor of Hungerford Charity.
1914 (CL) Trustees of Hungerford (own); Albert Charles Hance (occ)
-     ("Jock" Rolfe: AC Hance was known as "Colonel" Hance)
1915 (Kelly Dir) Albert Charles Hance, "John of Gaunt PH"

1932 (QR) Town Trustees (deleted)  Usher Wiltshire Brewery for "Alehouse formerly Cicely Walker then Edward James Payne", q.r. 5d.
1939 (Blacket's) "John O'Gaunt" Inn (E.J Payne)
-   22: Miss M.J. Liddiard, greengrocer
1939 Edward J. Payne, "John of Gaunt".

1947 (CL) Ernest Milford

1952-1956 (CL) Gerald Gibbs Face. [According to Robert James, Gerry Face was a Gloucestershire man who was renowned for his best Bass for the serious drinkers, and Ansells for those who could not stand the pace!].
1963 (CL) Cynthia Face (John of Gaunt)

1968 (CL) ? (John of Gaunt)

1970 (CL) Robert Wallis (John of Gaunt). [Another note by Robert James records that Dick Wallis, of the well known farming family, set the Johnny alight with much "bonhomie", good fun and plenty of pub grub.]

1976 (CL) Ronald John Huxley (amend to) Richard Duffield (John of Gaunt)

1983 (CL) James Windsor Pritchard / Roger Brooker (John of Gaunt Inn)
1984 (CL) Roger Paul Brooker
1985 (CL) Roger Paul Brooker

1988 Tenancy taken over by Morlands Brewery of Abingdon

1996 Chris and Beverley Barrett.

2000 (CL) Void

2005 (CL) Charles Henry Hill

2008  Licencees: Andrew & Suzy Treson
2011 (CL) Patrick Abbitt

Maltster's Yard (behind John of Gaunt Inn)

1841 (CS) Richard Hughes (35), grocer
   William Chapman (30), miller

1851 (CS) William Robeson (28), master tailor
   Joseph Rumboll (29), maltster
   William Bance (45), cordwainer
   John Swatton (25), maltster
   Isaac Bray (36), mill carter

1861 (CS) Joseph Rumboll (39), maltster, mealman & farmer
   William Pocock (62), miller's man
   Isaac Bray (44), carter

1871 (CS) Robert Goodman (51), miller
   Charles Stockwell (36), labourer
 Board and Carriage:
   Henry Burfield, labourer
   William Sopp (69), shepherd
   James Talmage (30), sawyer

1881 (CS) John Morris (33), grocer
   Jane Clift (58), widow

Keeper's House (owned by Town & Manor Charity)
1975 Built in similar design to (then existing) Swimming-pool house. Paul & Maureen Hill.
1992 Rob Starr

See also:
- John of Gaunt Inn
- John of Gaunt Inn, by Robert James - Hungerford & District Times, 7th Nov 1990
- Notes for a talk on the John o' Gaunt Inn given by Mr Jim Davis 27th Feb 1980
- John of Gaunt Inn - letter from Mr Jim Davis to Constable c1980
- John of Gaunt Inn - letter from Dr Hugh Pihlens to Mr Jim Davis 14th Feb 1980
- Workhouses

Updated: 13.5.2011

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