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Contrary to the sign on the wall in Azuza's Coffee Shop, we are not aware of any evidence that this property was The Greyhound Inn in the Elizabethan period. However, there is documentary evidence that it was The Greyhound from the early part of the coaching period, c1761.
Prior to 1761 the property had been owned by Edward Popham as part of the vast Littlecote estate.
In 1761 the "One messuage and one little cottage opposite Market House on West side of High Street called "The Greyhound"
was bought from Edward Popham by Edward Lucas, a mercer of Hungerford. Edward Lucas died in 1766, and his daughter Mary Lucas inherited. She married William Harrison of Little Bedwyn.
In 1773 Thomas Pool was the innkeeper. There is a Royal Exchange Assurance policy dated 23rd June 1773 taken out by
Mary Pike of Hungerford, innholder, insuring the furniture in her dwelling house brick and tiled known as The Greyhound £180 + stock £220.
In 1778 a Sun Fire Insurance (399485 24 June 1778) was taken out by William Pike
of Hungerford, innholder for "household goods valued (at same amount as Mary Pike above) £180, stock etc £420". William Pike is still the occupier on the 1781 Commoners List.
In 1791 Thomas Hawkesworth, grocer of Hungerford, bought The Greyhound from William Harrison. Thomas Hawkesworth
was Constable of Hungerford in 1766 and 1780. A deed dated 1793 of the adjacent property describes it as "a messuage belonging to Thomas Hawkesworth, called The Greyhound Inn, now in occupation of
William Watts".
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