Around the Village Photographs
05 - Poachers' Pub, Monks Lane
The background to this street name is uncertain. There is no evidence of a Mr Monk in local records. The most plausible reason given for the name is that the monks of Lenton Abbey who built the Church and the Manor resided here during their construction.
In the 1901 census some 70 people lived in this Lane. At No.12 , above the front door is the name “G. Hives 1831”. He was a builder and beer seller and his family kept The Windmill pub at one time. No.12 was reputed to be the Beehive / Poachers pub as it was adjacent to the fields leading up to the hills.
On the opposite side of the Lane are six old people’s bungalows built in 1982. They replaced a large farm having been built in 1815 by Robert Wheatley. The plaque was taken from this house and now stands on the grass verge near the bungalows.
The Lane which is unadopted, was laid with tarmac surface paid for by the residents in 1996.
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