According to Enderby, the Orange Tree Inn was a low class house and frequently changed its keeper. The records from licences commences in 1792. From 1846 it changed its name to the Kentish Arms.

Innkeepers: 1792 William Gill; 1806 Sarah Gill widow; 1816 William Fryer (Friar); 1838 William Young; and 1846 George Hills.

Even under the new name the Kentish Arms, the innkeeper was soon in trouble, and in 1849 'Inspector Spratt reports that there is a Dance held at the Kentish arms, Jury lane, on Saturday nights which brings together a disorderly lot of Prostitutes, and a great number of young lads'. The inn was finally closed in 1875.

Innkeepers: 1847 Ann Roberts; 1848 William Simmonds; 1851 John Noble; 1862 Richard Daniels; 1867 Sarah Caroline Daniels. It is listed in Pigot's Directory for 1840 as the Orange Tree with George Boyle as innkeeper.

Pigot & Co., 1840, Pigot & Co's. Royal, National and Commercial Directory and Topography of the County of Kent (Article in serial). SKE29962.

Ordnance Survey, 1874, 1st Edition Map of Canterbury 1874 (Map). SKE30106.

Enderby, H. M., 1950, The Inns of Canterbury Parts I & II, Lecture to the Canterbury Archaeological Society (Unpublished document). SKE29964.