Fareham Public Houses, Inns, Taverns, Hotels and Brewers from 1736

Malcolm Low

Researched and compiled by Malcolm Low, June 2005

Produced for research purposes only, compilation of dates and names from various sources have been followed as closely as possible, it is recommended that the information listed here be used as a guide to any further research. Information compiled from Trade Directories held in The Fareham Library and Westbury Manor Museum.

The following list is taken from the publication ‘Fareham Public Houses, Inns, Taverns, Hotels and Brewers from 1736’ produced by Malcolm Low. Copies of the publication are available for further research in the Recreation and Heritage Department of the ‘Westbury Manor Museum’ West Street, Fareham, Hampshire and the Reference Section of the ‘Fareham Library’ Osborne Road, Fareham, Hampshire.

Name of Inn/Hotel/			Address		Date	Owner/Licensee/
Public House						Manager
Abshot Hotel & Country Club			Titchfield Common		1993
Admiral Cunningham	Longfield Ave		Fareham		1965
Admiral Cunningham					1984
Admiral Cunningham					1992	Ernie Dixon
Admiral Cunningham					1992	Mrs Margaret Jackson
Admiral Cunningham					2005	Mrs Jeanette Weir
Angelis Greek Taverna	8 High Street		Fareham		1988	Peter Angelis
Avenue House Hotel	The Avenue		Fareham		1989	Hilary & Stewart
						Mitchell
Bakers Arms			Fareham		1872	Eliza Emery
Bat & Ball	Bridge Road		Sarisbury Green		1984
Bat & Ball					1987	Gloria & Chris Homer
Bat & Ball					1990	Peter & Christine Jenks
					1993	Richard Paddon &
						Dawn McGee
re-named Flat	Foot Sam's
Beehive *	Old Turnpike		Fareham		1872	Francis Brown
Formerly named	Gypsy King
Bird in Hand	Gosport Road		Fareham		1867	R. James
Bird in Hand					1872	Alexander Taylor
Bird in Hand					c1959	S.R. Press
Bird in Hand					1981	Mike Swift
Bird in Hand					1982	Mike Swift
Bird in Hand					1994	Lisa Gold
Bird in Hand					from 1994	Tracey Adams
Blackbrook	Blackbrook Rd		Fareham		1984
Blackbrook					1986	Alex Logan
changed to		Heathfield Arms
Blacksmiths Arms	Union Street			Fareham	1867-72	Joseph Grimble
Blacksmiths Arms	Ale house			Titchfield	1872	Catherine Binstead
Boars Head pub				Boarhunt	1981	T. Butler
Boars Head pub					1992	Mike Johnson
Boars Head pub					1996	Mike Johnson
Bold Forester	Beer house			Titchfield	1872	George Gales
Bold Forester	120 Bridge rd			Sarisbury	1984
Bold Forester					1986	Barry Masterman
The Brass Monkey	26 West Street			Fareham	1997-2003	Steven Burke
Brewery Tap	Beer house			Titchfield	1872	William Doe
Bricklayers Arms	Trinity Street			Fareham	1836-39	H. Earwaker
Bricklayers Arms					1847-52	Mrs Elizabeth Earwaker
Bricklayers Arms					1857-59	John Wale
Bricklayers Arms					1867	Charles Harding
Bricklayers Arms					1867	H. Trim
Buccaneer	The Avenue			Fareham	1970
Buccaneer					1980	Ted & Mary Moriarty
Buccaneer					1983	Philip Wheeler
Re named the	Harvester
Bugle Inn	26 West Street			Fareham	1784	Thomas Frost
Bugle Hotel					1792-93	Thomas Frost
Bugle Hotel					1823	Charles Mason
Bugle Hotel					1828-57	William Duffett
Bugle Hotel					1857-67	Joseph Tyler
Bugle Hotel					1871-88	Samuel Smither
						Fitt or Pitt?
Bugle Hotel					1890	Maurice James Gardner
Bugle Hotel					1895	George Henry Owens
Bugle Hotel					1898-99	James Smith
Bugle Hotel					1905	Robert Jordan Sanger
Bugle Hotel					1915-27	Henry White
Bugle Hotel					1935-41	J.A. Richardson
Bugle Hotel					c1959-60	D.E. Pyne
Bugle Hotel					1970	L.S. Creal
Bugle Hotel					1979	R.P. Read
Bugle Hotel					1992	Des Edwards
Bugle Hotel					1998	Michelle Hodder &
Renamed the Brass	Monkey
The Bugle	Ale house			Titchfield	1872	Charles Hunt
Bugle Hotel	The Square			Titchfield	1989	Eddie Allen
Bugle Hotel					1991	Warren Stocker
Bugle Hotel					1999	Bob & Liz Drake
Carrick House Hotel	East Street			Fareham	1983	Mrs P. Shannon-Stacey
Castle in the Air	Ale house			Quay, Fareham	1784	Richard Newman
Castle in the Air					1792-93	Richard Newman
Castle in the Air					1823-39	James Hallett
Castle in the Air					1847-59	Joseph Dore
Castle in the Air					1867	Mrs Mary Ann Dore
Castle in the Air					1872	James Spencer
Castle in the Air					1878	James Lambert
Castle in the Air					1890	Charles Parish
Castle in the Air					1895-99	Walter Edward Ayres
Castle in the Air					1905	John McCaul
Castle in the Air					c1986-88	Bernie & Lesley Startup
Castle in the Air					1995	Jane Slevin
Castle in the Air					2005
The current Castle	in the Air is not			the original building
Catisfield Hotel	Catisfield Lane			Fareham	1986	Roy Plater
Catisfield Hotel					1994	Daphne Downs
						Landowner
Chequers Inn	Quay Street			Fareham	1784	John Gilbert
Chequers Inn					1823	William Newman
Chequers Inn					1828-31	William Newman Snr
Chequers Inn					1836-39	J. Wassall
Chequers Inn					1847-52	John Gilbert
Chequers Inn					1857	John Pink
Chequers Inn					1859-67	Henry Hendley
Chequers Inn					1867-71	James Bundy
Chequers Inn					1872-78	Benjamin Rudman
Chequers Inn					1890-1905	Mrs Jane Foster
Chequers Inn					1915	William Francis Grounds
Chequers Inn					1920-23	Mrs Ellen Horsley
Chequers Inn					1927-31	Frank Davis
Chequers Inn					1940-41	Mrs C. Maud
Chequers Inn					c1959	Mrs M.C. McIntosh
Chequers Inn					1975
Clarendon	Beer house			Titchfield	1872	William Moore
Clinkers Tavern	3 Trinity Street			Fareham 1980-81
Clinkers Tavern					from 1988	Chris Norwood
was The Good	Intent
Coach & Horses	Stood between			18 & 19 High Street	1792-93	James James
Coach & Horses				Fareham	1823-31	Ann Dean
Coach & Horses					1836-47	James Lunn
Coach & Horses					1852	William Cheney
Coach & Horses	Ale house			Titchfield	1872	George Brothers
Coach & Horses	South Street			Titchfield	1984
Coach & Horses					2005
Coal Exchange	51 Gosport Rd			Fareham	1872	John Coker
Coal Exchange	Lower Quay			Fareham	1895	Henry T. Collins
Coal Exchange					c1959	W.G Wareham
Coal Exchange					1984
Cob and Pen	1 Wallington			Shore Road	1984
Cob and Pen				Wallington, Fareham	1994	Jonathon &
						Vanessa Raven
Cob and Pen					2005	Mrs Rees
Formerly Fort	Wallington			Tavern
Cormorant	Ale house			Portchester	1872	Henry Beutell
Cormorant	181 Castle St			Portchester	1984
Cormorant					1988	Steve Wringe
Cormorant					1994	Angela & Nigel Sandiford
originally known	as the Swan
County Arms	Knowle			Hospital (Funtley)	1872-67	Jonas Hill
Crofton	48 Crofton			Lane, Hill Head	c1960s
Crofton					1993	Alan Becker
Crofton					from 2003	Ian Readmen
Crofton Manor Hotel	Titchfield Rd			Stubbington	1980	Mrs Anne Bailey
Crofton Manor Hotel					1988	Mrs Vera Bailey
Crofton Manor Hotel					1988	Thomas Williams
Crown	Ale house			Portchester	1872	Henry Marshall
Crown Brewery	40 West Street			Fareham	1841
Crown Brewery					1872	John Parkes Cawte
Crown Brewery					1899	Cawte Bros
The Crown Inn					1915-27	Mrs Clara Frost
The Crown Inn					1931-41	P.J. Dawkins
The Crown Inn					c1959-60	H. Luther
The Crown Inn					1970-79	Peter J. Ponsford
The Crown Inn					1993	Brice Palmer
The Crown Inn					1995	Terri Palmer
The Crown Inn					1996	Miss Gosling
The Crown Inn					2005
The Cuckoo Pint	120 Cuckoo			Lane, Stubbington	1980	Peter Palmer
The Cuckoo Pint					1986	Peter Palmer
The Cuckoo Pint					1989	Janet & Roger Burrell
The Cuckoo Pint					2002	Dawn Stevenson
The Cuckoo Pint					from 2003	Kevin Williams
Daniels Bar	163 West St			Fareham	1984
Daniels Bar					1987	Grace & Pat Patterson
was the Royal Oak	Inn, now the			Moda and now	closed
The Delme Arms?				Fareham	1847	James Payne
Rebuilt in 1853	Formally named			Horse & Groom		John Payne
The Delme Arms	1 Cams Hill			Fareham	1852-75	John Payne
The Delme Arms					1878	Charles Cole
The Delme Arms					1890-1908	Henry Charles Parker
The Delme Arms					1915-20	Walter Philmore Lerston
The Delme Arms					1923	Charles Lancelot
						Churcher
The Delme Arms					1927-31	Samuel P. Bailie
The Delme Arms					1939	Thomas C. Henry
The Delme Arms					c1959	S. Collins
The Delme Arms					1986	Roy & Sheila Gillie
The Delme Arms					1994	Roy Gillie
The Delme Arms					2005
Dormy Guest House				Sarisbury Green	1986	Eddie & Mollie Rees
Dormy Guest House					1994	Eddie & Mollie Rees
Elm Tree	Beer house			Titchfield	1872	Thomas Privett
Elm Tree Inn	Swanwick Lane			Swanwick	1984
Elm Tree Inn					1989	David Jarvis
Elm Tree Inn					1991	David Jarvis
The Fareham	54 Trinity St			Fareham	c1900
was Trinity	Brewery
Fishermans Rest	Mill Lane			Titchfield	1872	John West
Fishermans Rest					1992	Steven Wringe
Fishermans Rest					2005
was the Railway	Inn				c1844
Fishermans Rest				Segensworth	1984
Flat Foot Sam's	Bridge Road			Sarisbury Green	1993	Richard Paddon
						& Dawn NcGee
Fort Fareham	Canteen			Fareham	1872	Francis Kirkwell
Fort Wallington	Canteen			Fareham	1872	James Price
Fort Wallington					1872	Caroline Edwards
Fort Wallington Inn	1 Wallington			Shore Rd, Fareham	1907-39	Thomas Gardener
Fort Wallington Tavern					1981	Bernard Constant
Fort Wallington Tavern					1982	Bernard Constant
Fort Wallington Tavern					1984
now Cob & Pen
Forte Posthouse	Fareham				1994	Patrick Cunningham
Globe Inn	High Street			Fareham	1867	W. Chamberlain
Golden Bowler Inn	Stubbington			Lane, Fareham	1984
Golden Bowler Inn					1990	Noel Pearce
Golden Lion	28 High Street			Fareham	1784	John Parks
Golden Lion					c1823-31	John Ford
Golden Lion					1836-39	S. Ford
Golden Lion					1844-47	Mrs Ann Wright
Golden Lion					1859	Charles Fry
Golden Lion					1852-59	Edward Greentree
Golden Lion					1867-89	James McDonald
Golden Lion					1880	Julian Best
Golden Lion					1890	John E. Hewett
Golden Lion					1898-99	R. Farmelo
Golden Lion					1903-05	William George Bourne
Golden Lion					1907-15	Richard William Flood
Golden Lion					1920-25	Alfred Lawrence
Golden Lion					1927	Mrs Eliz Ann Lawrence
Golden Lion					1931-35	Jack Lawrence
Golden Lion					1939	John H. Gamson
Golden Lion					1940-41	Dick Southam
Golden Lion					c1959-60	W.D. Carr
Golden Lion					1970-71	S. Forman
Golden Lion					1979	S. Cushman
Golden Lion					1993	Percy Caws &
						Pat Bearman
Golden Lion					1998	Damien Slevin
reputed to
have been built by	Stephen Barney			to replace the White	Horse Pub	in the 1800s
The Golden Lion	High Street			Southwick	2002	Ray Lawes
The Golden Lion					2005
Good Intent	Trinity Street			Fareham	1872	Joseph Dennis
Good Intent					1939	George Jackson
Good Intent					c1959	W.A. Varndell
Good Intent					1980-81
changed name	to The Clinkers			Tavern
Gordon Arms	107-109 Gordon			Road, Fareham	1920	Charles Pharo
Gordon Arms					1931-39	William J McDonald
Gordon Arms					c1959	A.E. Randall
Gordon Arms					1972	Mrs Anne Sheeran
Gordon Arms					2005
Great Harry	2 Warsash Rd			Warsash	1984	Alan Lewis
Great Harry					1988	Stephen Greenwood
Great Harry					1989	Bryn Fellows
Great Harry					1991	Alan & Dawn Watts
Great Harry					1994	Alan & Dawn Watts
Hampshire Drover	Beer house			Portchester	1872	George Hall
Hampshire Rose	96 Highlands			Road, Fareham	1997	Bill Evans & Amanda
						Woolaghan
Heathfield Arms	116 Blackbrook			Road, Fareham	1999	Sharon Wilson
was Blackbrook Pub
Heathfield P.H.	Peak lane			Fareham	1978	Peter Stannard
Heathfield Toby Inn					1984
Highlands P.H.	Highlands Rd			Fareham	1939	CharlesPadbury
Highlands Inn					1984
Highlands Inn					1991	Janet Finney
Highlands Inn					1996	Ron Walker
re-named	Hampshire Rose				1997
Hoeford House					1872	Thomas Hibdidge
Hoeford Inn	250 Gosport			Road Fareham	1962-71	George Davis
Hoeford Inn					1986	David McQuitty
Hogshead & Bugle				Fareham	1991	Des & Sandy Edwards
Hogshead & Bugle					1994	Des & Sandy Edwards
Hope Brewery					1872	Stephen Ellis
Horse & Groom	Beer house			Titchfield	1872	Elizabeth Bath
Horse & Groom				Wallington	1828-31	William Cooper
Horse & Groom					1907-08	John Steele
Horse & Groom	117 West St			Fareham	1867-72	Mrs Sarah Hutchings
Horse & Groom *					1895	James Adams
Now Post Office	site
Horse & Jockey	Ale house			Titchfield	1872	Charles Pink
Horse & Jockey					1992-93	John Foster
The John Devenish	Cheese & Ale			House, Trinity Street	1992	Sarah Lyon
The John Devenish	Cheese & Ale			House	1993	Gerry Morris
Jolly Farmer	Beer house			Titchfield	1872	William White
Jolly Farmer	29 Fleet End			Road, Warsash	1983-93	Martin & Cilla O'Grady
The Jolly Miller	96 Miller Drive			Fareham	1984
The Jolly Miller					1987	Jim & Jane Williams
The Jolly Miller					1989	Jim & Jane Williams
The Jolly Miller					2005
Kings Arms	14 West Street			Fareham	1823	Thomas Hunt
Kings Arms					1828-39	Wiliam Archer
Kings Arms					1847	John Bishop
Kings Arms					1852	John Henry Gibbard
Kings Arms					1857-67	Thomas Pack
Kings Arms	(Billiard Room)				1867	Richard Rober Davies
Kings Arms					1871-78	Mrs Mary Ann Radford
Kings Arms					1890	John Newman
Kings Arms					1895	William Ball
Kings Arms					1898-99	J. Jestico
Kings Arms					1905	Josiah Joseph Grigg
Kings Arms					1915	William Edwards
Kings Arms					1920	Albert Stead
Kings Arms					1923	Samel Henry Field
Kings Arms					1927	Charles Miller
Kings Arms					1931	George Hunter
Kings Arms					1935-41	George W. Hatter
Kings Arms *					c1959-60	J.H. Warnekey
Kings Head	169 West St </