A high resolution satellite map, listing and illustrating most of the 92 recorded drinking houses trading in Bishop's Stortford and Thorley since the 16th century, can now be linked to on Guide 10 - Inns and Public Houses. List includes Inns, Taverns, Beer Houses, Public Houses and Hotels, but not clubs or restaurants.

Each Guide also now links to Google Earth satellite images of Bishop's Stortford and Thorley, and includes photographs of subjects mentioned in the text.

Returning visitors to this website should always refresh pages. Minor revisions and additions to text are not always listed as an update.

Updated June 2008

GUIDE 11: River Stort – pictures of riverside development

GUIDE 14: The Castle pub – added text about landlord William Salmon's son, Charles Salmon, friend of royalty

Updated April 2008

GUIDE 10: Memories page – A former residents memories of Dimsdale Crescent in the 1940s and 50s

GUIDE 8: Linkway – The Causeway Secondary Modern School: includes a former pupil's memories of the school 1950 – 1954

Updated March 2008
GUIDE 6: Dr Robert Wallace – No 23 North Street

Updated January 2008
GUIDE 5: Chantry Mount School – includes a former student's memories of the school in the 1960s

2007 updates

GUIDE 7: Meadowlands (see Grange Paddocks) – new text
GUIDE 12: John Laybank Glasscock (1854-1929) – Brief biography

GUIDE 12: Hockerill Turnpike Trust – revised and additional text
GUIDE 3: High Street – additional text about the Great Earthquake of 1884
GUIDE 10: New pictures and text for the Nags Head public house
GUIDE 8: New pictures of Jackson Wharf development
GUIDE 11: John Kynnersley Kirby – new text and new picture
GUIDE 4: Church Interior – new text regarding church memorials
GUIDE 4: The Churchyard – new text regarding churchyard memorials and pictures
GUIDE 4: Windhill – Arrival of the Fifth Leicestershire Regiment 1914
GUIDE 10: Haymeads – pictures of the new development, including the restored workhouse, are on the MORE PICTURES page
GUIDE 8: Causeway – pictures of the new Causeway development and 'old' Jackson Wharf
GUIDE 3: High Street – revised text
GUIDE 3: Basbow Lane – new and revised text
GUIDE 4: Windhill – additional text
GUIDE 4: British Legion – additional text
GUIDE 5: Hadham Road – revised and additional text, 'Carfield Castle'
GUIDE 6: North Street East – revised and additional text
GUIDE 6: North Street West – revised and additional text includes Speechly & Milbanks chemist

2006 updates

GUIDE 3: Tissiman's – new and revised text
GUIDE 6: No 17 Pearsons/Sworder – revised text
GUIDE 6: No 19 The Chequers – revised text
GUIDE 6: Herts & Essex Observer – revised text
GUIDE 8: Hughes Timber Yard – additional text
GUIDE 9: The Crown Inn – additional text
GUIDE 13: Post Office – revised text. Also additional information about Stortford's postmasters, 1703–1897, and a brief chronology of the postal service in the town during the 19th century.

GUIDE 2: Curriers Arms – revised & additional text
GUIDE 6: White Horse Inn – revised text
GUIDE 6: North Street No 17 – new & revised text
GUIDE 6: North Street No 15 – new & revised text
GUIDE 7: The Grange – additional text
GUIDE 7: Barrells Down Road (Lindsey Road) – revised & additional text
GUIDE 9: Hockerill Workhouse – new text & pictures
GUIDE 12: Stagecoaches – additional text includes 19th c. stagecoach timetables