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Early and General References to Licensing in Harrold

Directories and other sources list the following beer sellers for Harrold, the names of whose premises are not known:

1811: Richard Clapham, innkeeper [CRT130Harrold9]
1864: Thomas Denton; John Noble, brazier;
1869: Thomas Denton, John Noble; William Thompson, baker;
1876: Bond; John Noble, brazier; 1877: Mary Bond; John Noble, grazier;
1885: Thomas Noble, tin, iron and zinc plate worker;
1890: Herbert Dartnell, Samuel Parris;
1894: Samuel Parris;
1898: Robert Bayes [later at the Wheatsheaf]; Samuel Parris;
1903: Robert Bayes; Samuel Parris;
1910: Mary Parris [PS3/3 notes that she was licensee of a no sign beerhouse until 1912 when she was succeeded by Ebenezer Abbott, the beerhouse being closed 1914]