The Royal Oak, Whatlington
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poliphiloWe've been meaning to stop for lunch here for ages- and not doing so because it's on the road to other places rather than a destination in itself. That we ended up here yesterday was unplanned. We'd intended to eat at The Chequers in Battle but turned up to find they were having their kitchen rejigged.
The Royal Oak is late 15th century and has an 80 foot medieval well in one of the bars. They do excellent fish and chips- with the best mushy peas I can remember.
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The church in Whatlington village looks like a late 19th century cemetery chapel but there's a Norman building hiding under the fancy accretions. Malcolm Muggeridge- crusading journalist. TV personality, contrarian, youthful libertine and latter-day Savonarola- is buried in the churchyard.
The Royal Oak is late 15th century and has an 80 foot medieval well in one of the bars. They do excellent fish and chips- with the best mushy peas I can remember.
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The church in Whatlington village looks like a late 19th century cemetery chapel but there's a Norman building hiding under the fancy accretions. Malcolm Muggeridge- crusading journalist. TV personality, contrarian, youthful libertine and latter-day Savonarola- is buried in the churchyard.
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Date: 2015-11-14 06:30 pm (UTC)Does sound like quite a magnificent place. ^_^ Reminds me of the George Inn, a few miles out of Bath, built in either the 14th or 15th Centuries, with all the little mismatches of orientation you'd expect in a building of its age. Absolutely wonderful atmosphere. Although, if we're talking of historic pubs, there's one not far from where I currently find myself, which is apparently old enough to have been saying Hi to the Norman invaders. (And they do very good food, too, plus a careful selection of casks and bottles - not a huge range, but satisfying, whether your tastes lie in cider, Belgians, or dark bitters. In my case, I'll usually span them all over the course of a full evening - I'm quite fond of alternating between cider/perry and beer)