Ye olde Six Bells, Horley, Surrey

The pub is believed to have been built about 1450 and is thought to be the oldest surviving building in Horley. It may have started as a hospice and evolved into an alehouse and then a public house and more recently, more of a restaurant.

Its name comes from the six bells which hung in the church before 1839, when two more bells were added.

“So, in reality it should now be called the Eight Bells,” Mr Buss wrote.

Mr Buss said it is probable that whoever lived in the building from 1535 also brewed their own ale, “be they monks or servants of Chertsey Abbey, and the church, and it is not until 1597 can a record be found that confirms it was an alehouse.”

In September 1597, at a primitive court held in the locality, the “aletaster”, John Shelsham, reported that Agnes Shoo and John Fletcher, common alehouse keepers, were prosecuted for selling liquor “in stone cups, wooden tankards and other illegal measures”. Agnes was also in trouble again “for being a common scold with her neighbours” and for not paying tax on the sale of her spiced cakes.

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