There’s a few pubs out there that claim a royal connection. Perhaps
they were popular places to go to toast a new leader when his predecessor had
his head cut off. It might even have been on display at the pub for a while. It
all sounds a bit gruesome! The trouble is that when pubs get taken over,
artefacts and histories are often lost in a refurbishment, and you have to
revert to local folklore. This one’s now a restaurant, and a lot of the focus
is about the food rather than the atmosphere and what you can expect to find
inside. Are the ghosts still celebrating their executioner? It doesn’t even
tell you which King they have! But many often refer to the King after Henry VIII’s
separation from Catholicism, and were previously called the Pope’s Head. This one
is right next to a church, I wonder if that’s a common factor?
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