Leyland - Roebuck Inn

Name: The Roebuck aka Withy Arms

Address: 3-5 Worden Lane, Leyland

First reference to the Roebuck I can find is on the 1824 Baine's directory below when Rachel Walton was the listed landlady. Prior to that time the pub was reportedly known as "The Stag" although I can find no documentary evidence to support this and it just have been a local nickname based on the pub's sign. Subsequent landlords were Timothy Tomlinson (1834), William Kellett (1839-41), Charles Gilchrest (1846-55), William Lowe (1858), James Speak (1861), James Leyland (1869), Hiram Carlisle (1871-72), John Hurst (1881), John Pagett (1891), Mary Hurst (1901), William Iddon (1911) and James C Smith (1917). 

1824 Baines Directory - Rachel Walton

Liverpool Mercury - Friday 05 November 1824

In 2021 the pubs changed its name to The Stag in deference to its previous history. Over recent years it has been called the Withy Arms but for most of its existence it has been the "Roebuck" or "Buck Inn". The marriage record posted in the above press release from late 1824 confirms the reference to the Stag Inn but earlier that year the official Baine's directory confirms it was known as the Roebuck, run by Rachel Walton.

Annotated Map of Towngate

1834 Directory - Timothy Tomlinson

Marriage: 31 Jan 1839 St Andrew, Leyland, Lancs.
John Collister - full age, Engineer, Bachelor, Leyland
Mary Kellett - Minor, Spinster, Leyland
    Groom's Father: John Collister
    Bride's Father: William Kellett, Innkeeper
    Witness: Elizabeth Pearson; Geo. Pearson
    Married by Licence by: Thos. Marshall
    Register: Marriages 1837 - 1843, Page 60, Entry 119
    Source: Original register at Lancashire Archives

1841 Census

1846 Slater's Directory

1851 Census

1854 Mannex Directory

1855 Slater's Directory

1858 Post Office Directory - William Lowe

1861 Census

1869 Slater's Directory

1871 Census

Probate Record Hiram Carlisle

1881 Census

1891 Census

1901 Census

1911 Census

1917 Barrett's Directory