Staffordshire Knot, Great Haywood

The pub closed in the late 1960s and is now a private house, The Knot. Until the mid 1880s it was known as the Staffordshire Knot beer house, after that it was called the Staffordshire Knot Inn. The name is strictly incorrect, the device is properly known as the Stafford Knot.

The building was in built in the late 18th century as a private cottage. It seems to have become a pub called the Tiger around 1820 when the licensee was Lewis Biddulph, he may have extended the building at this time. It may have become known as the Staffordshire Knot in the 1850s. The first licensee the the early 1880s until 1884 was Thomas Chamberlain, always referred to as a beer house keeper. It is possible that Walter Bickley, a beer house keeper was there in the 1860s. In 1884 it was taken over by Edwin Potts, who also owned a smallholding behind the pub, the smallholding was sold after the death of Edwin's second son Harry. Edwin was succeeded in turn by three of his children and then by his niece Isabella (Bel) Arnott. Isabella remained at the pub until the late 1960s when it closed, she died in 1989 in Congleton, Cheshire.

Known licensees -

Lewis Biddulph 1820s, Thomas Chamberlain 1880-1885; Edwin Potts 1885-1922 (also brewer, builder & bricklayer 1888-92); Miss Adelaide Potts 1922-36; George Potts 1936-1940; Henry John Potts 1940-30/1/1943. Isabella Mary Arnott 1943-6?.