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The Swan Inn was situated at 22 Main Street. The first time there is any evidence of The Swan being around as a public house, it is with a licence being granted in 1786 issued to Katherine Flamson. She held a licence from 1786 to 1790, and although the licence does not name the premises, strong evidence links it to The Swan. Richard Flamson —likely her son, born in 1757 —held the licence from 1816 to 1823, and appears in the 1798 Land Tax Evaluation as a proprietor. From 1824 - to approximately 1834 a Thomas Thornloe was landlord. Between 1841 and 1863, Nathaniel Blakesley was the landlord, with the license being transferred to Thomas Wilkinson and then the Jordan family from the late 1860s until the early 1900s, incorporating a butchery, when the Gardner family ran it, these being related to the landlord Alfred Smith who ran the The Old Swan Inn and butchery from 1922 until 1959. The Swan continued to serve the village throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries until its closure in March 2020, when it was converted into a private residence , following the sale by the Everards Brewery.
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