The Three Horseshoes, Staplestreet, Kent

About the Three Horseshoes

Staplestreet, Hernhill is a small hamlet of cottages surrounding the Three Horseshoes Pub. The use of the building as a public house can be traced back to 1623 when it was bought from Mr. Samuel Dawes by Shepherd Neame. When under the landlord Miles, the pub also housed a butchers shop and in the kitchen the rods on which the meat was hung still remain. Originally the pub had three bars, evidence of this remains as a stairway that remains at one end of the cellar, although the cellar flaps have long since been moved. In the past there have been many themes in the pub from stuffed animals and hats on the walls to coins stuck to the ceiling. We have been at the pub since 1998 and in that time we have built up a reputation for good live music. The garden has been developed as a beer garden, the main feature of which is a Walnut tree which predates the pub and still yields a good crop of fruit. The menu has developed from hot pies only in the seventies to an appetising but limited menu in the early nineties. Since 1998 we have extended the menu to include a full range of traditional food in keeping with the type of pub that we keep.

Staplestreet in its time has had a slaughter house, butchers, village shop, dairy, forge, police station, allotments and a well that was capped years ago. At the turn of the century a rubbish tip was filled in and one of the houses still have bottles from the tip surface in the stream that runs through the bottom of the garden.

If anybody has any information on Staplestreet please contact us.


telephone: 01227 750842	email: skippy@theshoes46.fsnet.co.uk
The Three Horseshoes, Staplestreet, Hernhill, Nr. Faversham, Kent