Jacob's Well Inn, Woodhead Road, Honley

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Details

  • location: Woodhead Road, Honley
  • status: still exists
  • category: public house, beerhouse, inn, etc.

The inn was in existence by the 1830s with Jacob Hanson being named as the licensee in 1840.[1]

Following the Holmfirth Flood of 1852, the bodies of Elizabeth Healey, Martha Hartley and Charles Thorpe were taken to the inn.

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Landlords and Licensees

  • by 1847 - George Sanderson
  • by 1855 - Jesse Howarth
  • by the 1890s – Law Dyson
  • 15 March 1898 – John Jagger
  • 4 June 1901 – Sarah Jagger
  • 17 December 1901 – Joe Oldfield
  • 8 December 1903 – Fred Dyson Matthewman[2]
  • 29 March 1904 – Lister Sykes
  • 9 May 1905 – George William Roberts
  • 1 August 1922 – Dan Thorpe Haigh
  • 6 August 1929 – Brook Taylor
  • 4 June 1935 – John William Harrison
  • 4 May 1943 – Arthur Eastwood
  • ? May 1956 – James Arthur Sailes(?)[3]
  • 6 February 1962 – Charles William Addy
  • 8 February 1968 – Mary Addy
  • 6 March 1973 – Jean Kaye

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Notes and References

  1. "Deaths" in Leeds Times (04/Jul/1840).
  2. This entry was subsequently crossed out and the word "refused" appended.
  3. Hard to read the handwriting, but it could also be "Wailes".