Address: 1, Preston Road, Leyland
Built in the early 1830s the Railway Bridge Inn, as it's name suggested was built alongside the railway the other side of the line from the station. Local businessmen, William Balshall and William Boardman built their new cotton mill alongside the lines to make the most of the improved links and it was reportedly William Boardman's brother, Edward Booardman who built the Railway Inn.
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| 1844 Map |
Listed landlords at the Inn were John Noble (1838-49), Hannah Noble (1849-51), Richard Parr (1855-61), John Carr (1869-71), Thomas Carr (1881), John Carr (1885), John W Sharp (1891), William Tomlinson (1901), Ann Pickburn (1911), Robert Dearden (1917) and Danny and Alison Hindle (-2016).
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| 1841 Census |
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| 1846 Directory |
On Sale, the valuable and well-bred BOAR, "WONDERFUL," the property of Mr. Noble, Railway Bridge Inn, Leyland. He was bred by Mr. Hugh Swift, of Samlesbury, from his Prize Sow of the Small Breed.
16 October 1847 - Preston Chronicle
Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries
Saturday last, aged 72, Jane, wife of Mr. Henry Porter, farmer, Clifton. On Saturday last, Mr. John Noble, of the Railway Bridge Inn, Leyland, aged 43. On Thursday week, Jane Rugby, Prince's-street, aged 81.
05 May 1849 - Preston Chronicle
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| 1851 Census |
John Noble was dead by he time of the 1851 census leaving widow Hannah Noble running the Inn. Not too long afterwards she remarried and the church's record confirms that she was brought up in the pub trade, her father being a publican.
Marriage: 20 Oct 1851 St Andrew, Leyland, Lancs.
John Occleston - Of full age, Railway Guard, Bachelor, Preston
Hannah Noble - Of full age, Widow, Leyland
Groom's Father: John Occleston, Weaver
Bride's Father: William Marsden, Publican
Witness: Wm. King; Sarah King
Married by Licence by: W. Fernyhough, Curate
Register: Marriages 1850 - 1856, Page 67, Entry 133
Source: Original register at Lancashire Archives
The following year saw the marriage of John and Hannah's daughter Isabella at St Andrew's.
Marriage: 10 Nov 1852 St Andrew, Leyland, Lancs.
John Stevenson - Of full age, Coachman, Bachelor, Leyland
Isabella Noble - Minor, Spinster, Leyland
Groom's Father: John Stevenson, Farmer
Bride's Father: John Noble, Innkeeper
Witness: Thos. Noble; Martha Stevenson
Married by Banns by: Jonth. Shortt, Curate
Register: Marriages 1850 - 1856, Page 115, Entry 229
Source: Original register at Lancashire Archives
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| 1855 Slater's Directory |
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| c.1920 |
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| 1858 Post Office Directory |
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| 1861 Census |
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| 1869 Slater's Directory |
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| 1871 Census |
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| 1881 Census |
Instructed by the representatives of the late...to Sell by Auction, at Mr. John Carr’s, the Railway Inn. Leyland on Thursday, the 28th day of May, 1885, at Four o’clock in the Afternoon punctually, that most desirable FREEHOLD RESIDENCE.
16 May 1885 - Preston Herald
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| 1891 Census |
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| Parading past the Railway Inn c.1910 |
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| 1901 Census |
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| 1911 Census |
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| 1917 Barrett's Directory - Commercial and Railway Hotel |
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