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Two-storey cream-coloured building on a corner with grey slate roof, quoined corners, and a pavement-side chalkboard sign.

12 Churchgate, Soham (RGL2025)

Crown Hotel, 12 Churchgate, Soham

History of 12 Churchgate

1851

George Dove, 33, hotel keeper, b Sussex

Julia, 24, b Newmarket

George, 11ms, b Soham

Mary Stephenson, 26, barmaid, b Suffolk

William Copping, 24, groom and ostler, b Norfolk

Mary Ann Lupson,  17, chambermaid, b Ely

In 1852 Mary Ann Lupson was arrested by the proctors in Cambridge. Her committal number was no.90


A two-story building with a tiled roof and dormer windows, featuring people standing at the entrance with bicycles and a car.

The Crown Soham c1930s

In the 1930s William Sharpe was the licensee.

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