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The Valiant Soldier was situated on Downing Street.

Source: David Noble

In 1656, Thomas Hole, yeoman, sold his barn, hop garden and gate room on the west side of Downing Street 'called Church Hold' to James Huntt, linen draper (-/-/1). By 1668, the premises are described as a messuage with gate room, barn etc, when Huntt sold it to James Mason, locksmith (-/-/2). Mason's will left the property to John Stanton; by the time Stanton's niece and heir Jane Buckham, formerly Jane Spranger, sold to Charles Humphrey, victualler, in 1735, the messuage had become known as the sign of the Valiant Soldier (-/1/3-7). Humphrey's daughter Elizabeth, wife of Jasper Lawrence, had inherited by 1756, when the Valiant Soldier and other property of Humphrey comprising a messuage, formerly two messuages, on Upper Church Lane, was conveyed to Thomas Leigh, surgeon of Farnham, as a trustee to Jasper and Elizabeth Lawrence (-/1/8). Elizabeth and her daughter Elizabeth Possell and her husband Phillip Possell sold the public house to Robert Trimmer, brewer, in 1786 (-/1/13-14). Trimmer redeemed the land tax on the Valiant Soldier and another public house in his possession known as the Fox, Farnham, in 1799.

Sheila Creighton (July 2024)

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