Longridge - Red Lion Inn

Name: Red Lion Hotel

Address: King Street, Longridge

The Red Lion was built in 1795 and remained a public house well into the 20th century, although in more recent years it was converted to residential use but was a prominent Inn in the town in its day, adjacent to the Dog Inn at the top of Berry Lane for well over a century.

Listed landlords at the Red Lion Inn were George Dewhurst (1813-), Jane & Ellen Dewhurst (daughter) (-1849), Ellen Dewhurst (1849-), Christopher Parkinson (1852-), George Altham (1858-61), Richard Dewhurst (-1864), John Dewhurst (1864-), George Eastham (1869-81), Adam Parr (1889-94), Johnson Lord (1901) and James Bee (1911).

Baptism: 31 Jan 1813 St Lawrence, Longridge, Lancs.

John Dewhurst - S of George Dewhurst & Mary

Abode: Dilworth

Occupation: Inn-keeper

Baptised by: The Revd. Robt. Parkinson

Register: Baptisms 1813 - 1840, Page 1, Entry 7

Source: LDS Film 1657578

Lancaster Gazette - Saturday 04 November 1826

1910 Map

1828 Pigot's Directory Geo(rge) Dewhurst

The directory above suggest that George Dewhurst was at the Red Lion in Ribchester but I believe this is a error on the record as BMD and other records confirm the Dewhursts were living in Dilworth and this pub through the early 1800s.

 

Preston Chronicle - Saturday 27 February 1841

1841 Jane Dewhurst

Preston Chronicle - Saturday 18 September 1847

1848 Slater's Directory

Marriage: 5 Feb 1849 St Lawrence, Longridge, Lancs.

Richard Dunderdale, Yeoman - full age, Widower, Thornley with Wheatley

Jane Dewhurst - full age, Spinster, Dilworth

Groom's Father: Ralph Dunderdale, Yeoman

Bride's Father: George Dewhurst, Inn Keeper

Witness: John Parker; Ellen Parson, (X)

Married by Licence by: William C. Bache

Register: Marriages 1838 - 1895, Page 18, Entry 35

Source: LDS Film 1657578

Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser - Wednesday 21 February 1849

By 1851 Jane Dewhurst was living with her husband Richard Dunderdale in Thornley with Wheatley and sister Ellen had taken over running the Inn.

1851 Ellen Dewhurst

Marriage: 17 Jun 1851 St Lawrence, Longridge, Lancs.

Thomas Holmes Sergenson - full age, Inn Keeper, Widower, Dilworth

Ellen Dewhurst - full age, Spinster, Dilworth

Groom's Father: Thomas Sergenson, Farmer

Bride's Father: George Dewhurst, Inn Keeper

Witness: John Whittaker; Sarah Dewhurst

Married by Licence by: William C. Bache

Register: Marriages 1838 - 1895, Page 21, Entry 41

Source: LDS Film 1657578

Preston Chronicle - Saturday 21 June 1851

Blackburn Standard - Wednesday 05 May 1852

Preston Chronicle - Saturday 16 October 1852

1854 Directory

Preston Chronicle - Saturday 13 October 1855

Baptism: 7 Aug 1858 St Lawrence, Longridge, Lancs.

George Altham - [Child] of George Altham & Ann

    Abode: Dilworth

    Occupation: Inn Keeper

    Baptised by: W. C. Bache

    Register: Baptisms 1840 - 1874, Page 87, Entry 695

 

Preston Chronicle - Saturday 16 July 1859

Baptism: 11 Feb 1860 St Lawrence, Longridge, Lancs.

Elizabeth Altham - [Child] of George Altham & Ann

    Abode: Dilworth

    Occupation: Inn Keeper

    Baptised by: W. C. Bache

    Register: Baptisms 1840 - 1874, Page 94, Entry 752

1861 George Altham

Baptism: 1 Dec 1861 St Lawrence, Longridge, Lancs.

Sarah Altham - [Child] of George Altham & Ann

    Abode: Dilworth

    Occupation: Inn Keeper

    Baptised by: W. C. Bache

    Register: Baptisms 1840 - 1874, Page 106, Entry 846

    

Blackburn Standard - Wednesday 08 January 1862

Preston Herald - Saturday 05 September 1863

Preston Chronicle - Saturday 20 February 1864

Blackburn Standard - Wednesday 16 March 1864

Preston Chronicle - Saturday 20 February 1869

1871 George Eastham

Preston Chronicle - Saturday 16 May 1874

Preston Chronicle - Saturday 08 January 1876

Preston Chronicle - Saturday 04 November 1876

Preston Chronicle - Saturday 20 April 1878

1881 George Eastham

1889-91 Poll Books Adam Parr

1891 Adam Parr

1894 Poll Books Adam Parr

1901 Johnson Lord

1910 Map

c.2021 looking up King Street