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.
This cache is located on the western edge of Knotty
Green, in Underwood. About one and a half miles from the Old Town
of Beaconsfield, Knotty Green was first noted on a map around 1680.
In 1841 it consisted of four farms and a few cottages around a
green with only 14 families. Today, it is more an extension of the
New Town of Beaconsfield, although it maintains its identity, both
civil and ecclesiastical, as part of Penn Parish.