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Date of photo: 1999	Picture source: Steve Turner
The Ship was situated on Ship Lane. This is a rade II Listed 17th century former canal side public house and shop.
Grade II Listed 17th century former public house and shop. Canal side pubs generate many tales including here rumours of highwaymen bedding down for the evening. Information on the pub is thin on the ground but in 1941 a Bucks Herald obituary refers to a Mr Alfred Bird who had resided with his sister 'of the "Ship" Inn'. Searching directories under Marsworth (aka Masworth) I find no Ship but perhaps it is just listed as beer retailer, 1853 two beer retailers Thomas Lines and Robert Russell (& shopkeeper), 1876 John Jellis beer retailer (& grocer & coal merchant), 1883 two beer retailers George and John Jellis (George is John’s son and pubwiki lists John at the Ship from 1864 to 1891 when he’s shown as a publican in the census), 1899-1903 John Smith beer retailer and 1907-1915 Thomas Chamberlain beer retailer. Before 1853 Ma(r)sworth is not in my directories.
Steve Turner (December 2021)
Listed building details:
Public house. C17 with early C19 alterations. Possibly originally timber frame, now painted brick and render with stucco quoins and dressings, thatched roof with raised brick coped gables and 2 gable stacks. Single storey with attics, 3 bay front, having central boarded door in fluted surround with short hood on scrolled brackets, flanked by single tripartite glazing bar sashes with splayed rusticated stucco lintels with raised key blocks. Over the door is a niche containing the figure of a white horse. To the attic are 2 through eaves dormers with thatched gables and glazing bar sliding sahes and casements
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