Adlington - Waggon & Horses

Name: The Waggon & Horses

Address: 94, Market Street, Adlington

The Waggon & Horses has been a feature of life on the most southerly edge of Adlington since the early 1800's. It is located in the Water House Bridge area of the village and would have served the community and workers from the nearby Water House Printworks and Smithyfield Blacking Mill during those earlier years.

The first listed landlord of the pub was a Daniel Comberbach as recorded on the 1824 Standish Directory below.

Landlords recorded thereafter were Daniel's wife Margaret Comberbach (1841), John Harrison (1851), Mary Taylor (1859-61), William Outterside (1871), Jane Darbyshire (1881), George & Martha Warburton (1891-1901), Isaac Mather (1911),  William Walter Brown (1921), William Grimes (1931) and Herbert Higham (1846).

1841 Census

Manchester Times 16 July 1847

Northern Star and Leeds General Advertiser 11 November 1848

1851 Census

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Bolton Chronicle 01 January 1859

1861 Census

1871 Census

Chorley Standard and District Advertiser 11 September 1880

1881 Census

1891 Census

Lancashire Evening Post 31 August 1892

Blackburn Standard 17 September 1892

1901 Census

1911 Census

1921 Census William Walter Brown

Lancashire Evening Post 14 August 1931

Lancashire Evening Post 13 June 1934

Lancashire Evening Post 31 May 1937

Lancashire Evening Post 15 October 1946