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Six Bells Inn, The Street, Chiddingly, East Sussex BN8 6HT

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1899, David William Gutsell, Six Bells, The Street, Chiddingly/../../Post Office Directory

Hastings and Bexhill Independent. 10 May 1900
Auction of Licensed Houses. Messrs Dowsett, Knight and Co offered for public sale some well knwon hostelries in East Sussex.
Lot 1 a beerhouse, the Barley Mow, Punnetts Town, in the Parish of Heathfield. This property was withdrawn at £1,140.
The Brewers Arms, or "Clappers", Vines Cross, in the Parish of Heathfield, let at £30 a year, was withdrawn with no offers.
The freehold property opposite, comprising three single and one pair of cottages, with gardens, let on weekly tenancies and producing £29 18s per annum, sold for £660.
The fully licensed public house known as the May Garland Inn, Horsham road in the parish of Hellingly, together with a grocers shop, garden and orchard land attached, the whole let on a yearly tenancy of £29 was next offered. The sum of £2,550 was reached but the property did not change ownership.
The Six Bells, Chiddingly had £2,050 offered, but no sale was effected.
The freehold ale and stout house, with an on and off license, knwon as the Potters Arms Dicker was next offered. At £1,100 the property was withdrawn.
In the room, £1,700 was offered for the Brewers Arms situated in the High street, Hailsham, an hostelry formerly known as the Railway Arms, Subsequently the property was disposed of for £1,750.

In 1911 at Six Bells Inn Chiddingly
George Henry Ditch, Inn keeper and retired water maker, aged 38 years and born in Sedlescombe Sussex
Elizabeth Ditch, Wife, aged 40 years and born in Worthingham Sussex
George Alfred Ha Ditch, Son, aged 9 years and born in Hurstenceux Sussex

1938, William George Smith, proprietor, Six Bells Hotel The Street, Chiddingly/../../Post Office Directory

2018, Six Bells Inn, The Street, Chiddingly, East Sussex BN8 6HT


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