In 1663, the landlord of
the pub was rewarded by Charles II for giving support to his
executed father and his royalist supporters - The Cavaliers.
During the Civil War, the pub had been used as a mustering place by
King Charles I, where his personal standard had been raised to draw
royalist supporters in fighting
for his cause against the
Parliamentarians –The Roundheads. Charles II
honoured the landlord by
agreeing to change the name of the pub from The Ship to
“The Royal Standard of England ”, the only pub in the
country with the honour of the full title.
The origins of the Chiltern line itself stretch back more than
100 years to 15 March 1899 when Marylebone Station first opened to
passenger trains but it wasn't until 1905 that the line via South
Ruislip was opened and suburban services to Beaconsfield and High
Wycombe began.
On the section between Gerrards Cross and High Wycombe there
were some 2000 men, many of them itinerant Irish, employed on the
lines constructions. Utilizing twelve steam navvies, 29 small
steam locomotives, 500 tipper wagons, 100 trucks and 50 horses the
Great Western and Great Central joint line was the last mainline
railway to be built.
Half a mile to the south of this cache's location is Cut-throat
Wood and Highwayman's Farm. Their names show the sinister
past of the area which used to be the favourite haunt of highwayman
stopping travellers along the London to Oxford road, now the
A40. Highwaymen such as Dick Turpin and Claude Du Vall lodged
at the Royal Standard of England as a base for robberies in
Cut-throat Wood.
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