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The Plough – London Road
Up to 1901
The earliest known licensee, in 1850, was Charles Johnson; within a year his wife had taken over the
licence. Like so many other small pubs the income from it was too small to support a family and
Charles had become a mailman. Two years later the Johnsons had gone and the licensee was
Thomas Rance, the first of the Rance family who were to run the Plough until 1911. The family are
thought to have given their name to the nearby Rances Lane. The original Plough was a beer shop,
sited just round the corner from the present building – on Plough Lane, rather than fronting onto
London Road.
1901 to 2011
The current building was built in 1924 and until 2006 the Plough continued as a public house, but
has now been converted into a restaurant.
