Facing the junction with the road coming up from Lower Wick and Middle Wick, there is a detached old house with the name “The Old Kings Head”.
Gloucester Journal, Saturday 20th July 1929: Herbert Witts, licensee of the Kings Head, North Nibley, was summoned at Wotton-under-Edge Police Court for having sold intoxicants after prohibited hours, and Samuel Allen and Phillip Chamberlayne, farmers, of the same parish, were summoned for consuming liquor on the premises after prohibited hours.
Gloucester Citizen, Tuesday 1st November 1932: Pleading guilty to having sold a packet of cigarettes to a child of eleven years, Herbert Witts, of the Kings Head Inn, North Nibley, was fined five shillings. Witts said he was quite unaware that he was committing an offence, in fact he had been doing the same thing for six years.
Map Reference: ST 733966
Licensing Details:
Owner in 1891: Arnold Perrett & Co. Ltd, Wickwar Brewery
Rateable value in 1891: £13.10s.0d.
Type of licence in 1891: Beerhouse
Owner in 1903: Arnold Perrett & Co. Ltd, Wickwar Brewery
Rateable Value in 1903: £13.10s.0d.
Type of licence in 1903: Beerhouse
Closing time in 1903: 10pm
Landlords at the Kings Head include:
1891,1903 Thomas Smith
1913 E.J. Smith
1914 William Day (license transferred from the late E.J. Smith)
1929, 1932 Herbert Witts
1939 William Ivor Gough
