Coach and Horses Inn, Edenfield

Coach & Horses Inn, 163 Market Street, Edenfield.
1792 - “According to court books of the Manor of Tottington, held at Lancashire Record Office (under reference DDHC1) John HOUGHTON had bought the pub on 14th November 1795 for £211 1s.
There are several other references to the Coach and Horses in the records of the Manor of Tottington between 1792 and 1815. Presumably built to accommodate new coach traffic arising on the new Bury, Haslingden, Blackburn and Whalley turnpike (enacted in 1789) the inn is first referred to in January 1792 when Thomas DUCKWORTH, of Edenfield, innkeeper, mortgaged ’that new erected messuage or dwelling house situate in Edenfield now used as the wine tavern’. Later in the same year Thomas DUCKWORTH sold the property to William HOPKINSON, of Edenfield, innkeeper, when it was described as a ‘large, commodious and well accustomed public house with two housesteads thereto adjoining.’
The pub changed hands several times and by 1812 had become a ’capital messuage or dwelling house now used as an inn or public house known by the name or sign of the Coach and Horses Inn with the cottage, stable, brewhouse, outbuildings, garden and appurtenances situate in Edenfield'.
1796 – “PATRICK STEPHENS, a Rawtenstall local historian, drew the originals around 1908. In 1919, according to STEPHENS, there was a datestone on the inn’s stable, JH1796, which presumably survived until demolition, around 1962. This must be a reference, John suggests, to John HOUGHTON of Flaxmoss, near Haslingden.”
1814 – “In 1814 it was sold to Richard HAWORTH of Higher Ashenbottom for £488 10s.”
From a larger article by Andrew Todd in the RHS Magazine No 17 Autumn 1998
1818 Rogerson Directory - Nancy Duckworth, Victualler, Coach & Horses, Edenfield.
1828 Pigot’s Directory - Joseph Park, Coach & Horses, Edenfield.
1837 Electoral Register – Thomas Yates, Coach and Horses, Edenfield, this township.
1841 Pigot & Slater Directory - John Ashworth, Victualler, Coach & Horses, Edenfield.
1861 Drake Directory – Ellen Haworth, Coach & Horses, Edenfield.
1880 Barrett’s Directory – Jesse Ashworth, Victualler, Coach & Horses, Edenfield.
1883 Barrett’s Directory – Dickey Bramley, Victualler, Coach & Horses, Edenfield.
1888 Slater's Directory - Thomas Taylor, Coach and Horses, 163 Market Street, Edenfield.
1962 – Stable demolished around 1962.
1998 – The Three Sisters Restaurant, opens.
2007 – Reopens as The Coach & Horses.
2014 – Coach & Horses sold at Auction.
2015 - Now called The Coach which opened on Thursday 12th March 2015.
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