Address: 19, Leyland Lane, Leyland
The Wheat Sheaf Inn was built in the early 1800s and remains a going concern as a pub to this day.
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| Annotated Map of Earnshaw Bridge |
Listed landlords at the pub were Margaret Bretherton (1841-43), Jeremiah Porter (1846), Thomas Moss (1851-58), John Woods (1861), William Waddecar 1867-69), Robert Hargreaves (1871-74), William Walne (1881-91), James Hoyle (1901) and Thomas Green (1911-17)
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| 1841 Census |
Marriage: 16 May 1843 St Andrew, Leyland, Lancs.
William Bennet - of full age, Farmer, Bachelor, Leyland
Ann Bretherton - of full age, Spinster, Leyland
Groom's Father: William Bennet, Farmer
Bride's Father: William Bretherton, Publican
Witness: Margaret Bretherton, (X); William Banister, (X)
Married by Licence by: Gardner Baldwin, Vicar
Register: Marriages 1837 - 1843, Page 231, Entry 461
Source: Original register at Lancashire Archives
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| 1846 Directory - Jeremiah Porter |
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| 1851 Census |
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| 1854 Mannex Directory |
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| 1855 Slater's Directory |
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| 1858 Post Office Directory |
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| 1861 Census |
Harry Lancaster was charged with stealing 2s. and tobacco box from the person of John Haydock, at the Wheat Sheaf Inn, Leyland, on the 15th inst. It appeared the money was stolen whilst the complainant was asleep the sofa.—The facts having been proved.
30 January 1863 - Wigan Observer and District Advertiser
William was charged with stealing at Mr. Waddicar's the Wheat Sheaf Inn. Leyland. The evidence was not sufficient, and prisoner was discharged.
02 November 1867 - Wigan Observer and District Advertiser
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| 1869 Slater's Directory |
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| 1871 Census |
On Monday, M. Myers, Esq., coroner, held an inquest at the Wheat Sheaf, Leyland, to inquire into the death of James Rigby, a young man employed at the Farington corn mill, who was killed on Saturday
21 January 1871 - Lancaster Gazette
TO BE SOLD, cheap, by Private Treaty, a FREEHOLD PUBLIC HOUSE called Wheat Sheaf, Leyland, near Preston, with the outbuildings and adjoining land.
Address, J. Observer Office.
12 October 1877 - Wigan Observer and District Advertiser
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| 1881 Census |
At the time of the marriage of Robert Hargreaves Jnr his father was deceased having died back in 1874.
Marriage: 12 Feb 1887 St Andrew, Leyland, Lancs.
Robert Hargreaves - 30, Labourer, Widower, Leyland
Jane Glover - 24, Spinster, St James Leyland
Groom's Father: Robert Hargreaves, Deceased, Inn Keeper
Bride's Father: Richard Glover, Labourer
Witness: Thomas Thornley; Richard Glover; Mary Hannah Glover
Married by Licence by: W. Stuart White Curate
Register: Marriages 1875 - 1895, Page 136, Entry 271
Source: LDS Film 1470827
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| 1891 Census |
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| 1901 Census |
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| 1911 Census |
On Sunday morning she heard by telephone that her husband had expired. Thomas Green, the licensee of the Wheat Sheaf Inn, Leyland Lane, Leyland, said that the deceased came to his house about on Saturday morning. was selling parched peas...
12 February 1913 - Preston Herald
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| 1917 Barrett's Directory |
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