Address: Wigan Road, Coppull
The Grey Horse Inn is nowadays known as the "Thyme & Plaice" restaurant on Wigan Road in Worthington. The row of buildings were known as "Clieveley's Cottages", presumably having been built by the Clieveley family who were local farmers and indeed, the earliest recorded landlords of the Grey Horse.
Early census records show the family living at nearby Holt Farm and then Crook House, but it was the 1871 census which first recorded the Grey Horse with John Clieveley behind the bar. John appeared on the 1866 Mannex directory as a farmer and the census record confirms he was still working as a farmer as well as running the pub.
Listed landlords at the pub were John Clieveley (1871-79), Elizabeth Clieveley (1879-1881), James Wadeson (1890-91), Harry Ellingworth (1895-1901), Alexander Holme (1911) and Dave Bunting (1980's).
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| 1841 Census - Crooks House |
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| 1851 Census - Holt Farm |
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| 1871 Census - Grey Horse Inn |
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| c.2004 The Thyme & Plaice viewed from down Jolly Tar Lane |
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| 1881 Census |
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| 1891 Census |
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| Preston Chronicle 28 October 1893 |
The baptismal record of Maude Ellingham confirms that Harry was the landlord as early as 1895: -
Baptism: 1 Jan 1895 Parish Church, Coppull, Lancashire, England
Maude Ellingworth - Daughter of Harry Ellingworth & Mary Ann
Abode: Grey Horse Inn, Wigan Lane, Coppull
Occupation: Innkeeper
Baptised by: J. G. Hollingworth
Register: Baptisms 1892 - 1904, Page 22, Entry 173
Source: LDS Film 1849656
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| 1901 Census |
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| 1911 Census |
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| Lancashire Evening Post 14 February 1931 |
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| Landlord Dave Bunting, wife Eileen and Bill Hart with massive perm show off the RL Challenge cup in 1985 with many other customers. |
The Thyme & Plaice Bar And Restaurant is now a family owned restaurant, the Grey Horse Inn having been refurbished in 2009.
Thank you for publishing this 😊 i used to live on that street
ReplyDeleteThank you for this. The Wigan Directory of 1869 lists my great great grandfather Thomas Tyrer as landlord of the Grey Horse Inn. Could this be the same one or, as he was a Wigan man, perhaps another inn of the same name?
ReplyDeleteIt's certainly possible Judith, as it is right on the border with the Wigan area, but I suspect Thomas may have been at the Grey Horse Inn on Plank Lane, Leigh, as John Clieveley was living in the hamlet as a farmer before and after 1869 and would have opened his farm as a beerhouse to supplement his day job, so i's unlikely that Thomas Tyrer was landlord in between.
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