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Royal Standard of England

Pub Details

Address
Brindle Lane
Forty Green
Buckinghamshire
HP9 1XT
Telephone
(01494) 673382
Opening Times
Weekdays
11 - 11 (10.30 Sun)

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Royal Standard of England, Forty Green, Buckinghamshire, HP9 1XT – The Good Pub Guide
Pub Details | Good Pub Guide Recommended | Good Pub Guide Food | Awards | Good Pub Information |  Rating | Comments

Good Pub Guide Recommended

Ancient place with fascinating antiques in rambling rooms and good choice of drinks

A genuinely historic pub, this old inn evolved from a Saxon dwelling into an alehouse, and has been trading for nearly 900 years – hopefully the welcome was as cheerily friendly in earlier days as it is now. Its rambling rooms have huge black ship's timbers, lovely worn floors, finely carved old oak panelling, roaring winter fires with handsomely decorated iron firebacks and cluttered mantelpieces, and there's a massive settle apparently built to fit the curved transom of an Elizabethan ship. Nooks and crannies are filled with a fascinating collection of antiques, including rifles, powder-flasks and bugles, ancient pewter and pottery tankards, lots of tarnished brass and copper, needlework samplers and richly coloured stained-glass. Bass, Brakspears, Chiltern Ale, Marstons Pedigree and Rebellion IPA and Mild and Theakstons are well kept on handpump, there's a great carefully annotated list of bottled beers and malt whiskies, farm ciders, perry, somerset brandy and around a dozen wines by the glass; shove-ha'penny. Seats outside in a neatly hedged front rose garden or under the shade of a tree; they may ask to hold your credit card.

Good Pub Guide Food

Bar food includes lunchtime sandwiches and ploughman's as well as onion soup, devilled lamb's kidneys on fried toast, charcuterie, moules marinière, mushroom and spinach lasagne, battered fish and chips, steak and kidney pudding, mutton shepherd's pie, pork belly with bubble and squeak and puddings such as treacle tart or spotted dick; Sunday roasts.

Bar food times: 12 - 9.45 (9 Sun)

Awards

Good Pub Information

Dogs allowed in: Dogs Anywhere

Rating

  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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Rating: 3/5 (116 votes cast)

Reader Comments

BrianG

Monday 15 February 2010 1:11:28 pm

Visited 16th December 2009 on a cold winters day. Friendly and very obliging staff. An amazing range of excellent ales and other drinks on offer. Great menu with lots of choice of mainly classic English food (various pies, steak pudding, venison etc) plus some sandwiches. Pub has various areas for dining some with inviting open fires. A bit special !

paulhu

Monday 28 December 2009 3:03:27 pm

We just had lunch there. It is on a walk we do from nearby Penn. We think their baguettes at five pounds including a side or of chips is excellent value given the prices that dominate in this area. You ought to book at weekends and holiday days. The staff are friendly and helpful. I had the BLT bacon which comes with a nice portion of chips and our favourite tomato sauce. Can't wait till they have rooms. You might want to check the opening/food times I thnk they start earlier than you say.

ca.thomas@btinternet.com

Saturday 07 November 2009 4:03:36 pm

I've just spent the last few hours enjoying a lovely long lunch at The Royal Standard, great food, very friendly atmosphere, and really homely log fires. Well worth a visit.

angelah

Monday 10 August 2009 3:57:56 pm

I have just sent a long negative comment about The Royal Standard of England to the Editors. I tried to give it a star rating - which would have been NIL, but I somehow managed to give it 3.5 and I can't correct it or do another rating. I don't know if you can correct this for me and I really don't want to give the pub any stars at all - or a half at the most if you can't give it nil. It was one of the most unpleasant luncheon experiences I have ever had.

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