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Details of pub: Black Cock Inn, Synod Inn

Other names: Post-mawr; Synod House
Address/Location:
OS Grid Ref: SN4038954403
Opened: c.
Closed: NOT KNOWN Type: Inn
Summary: Shown on the 2 inch draft for the first OS 1 inch map, 1820s.
Also on a map of The South West Circuit, 1834 which shows it as being on the east side of the main road.

For a summary, see Passmore, Sue, Llannarth Land and People, p. 785

The 1841 Census for Llanarth has a house called Black Cock next door to Blue Bell.

Notes: 1820s
Draft Ordnance Survey map
1834
map of The South West Circuit
1837
Synod House occupied by David Jones
Tithe map
1841
David Jones, innkeeper, aged 50
Census, 1841
1851
David Evans, innkeeper, aged 75
Census, 1851
1852
David Rees, innkeeper,
David Rees's will
1861
Elizabeth Evans, aged 68, innkeeper
Census, 1861
1871
Evan Jones, innkeeper, husband of Eleanor Jones, daughter of Elizabeth Evans.
Census 1871
1881
Evan Jones, innkeeper
Census 1881
1891
Eleanor Jones, innkeeper
Census, 1891
1901
Daniel Jones, innkeeper, (possibly husband of Elizabeth Jones, Eleanor's daughter)
Census, 1901
1910
Daniel Jones owns the inn
Land Valuation lists, 1910

Additional information

Document:

Black Cock Inn, Synod Inn, map, S.W. Circuit, 1834

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