Originally a cottage home of a Mousehold shepherd, The King William IV now stands in the garden grounds.

            Having been a tavern for at  least 150 years recorded by  Joseph Manning's 1834 survey of licensed premises. Telegraph Lane, in     

            those days would have been no more than a footpath leading from Gas Hill to Yarmouth Road.   The lane named after the

            semaphoring system used in 1807, when the site of the water tower was as a vantage point to receive signals from Great Yarmouth     

            should the  French have invaded.