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
fightingfor his cause
against the Parliamentarians –The Roundheads. Charles
IIhonoured 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 magnetic micro is located close to Jevington
House. This is an Arts & Craft style house, built in 1908
of wychert (unfired clay and straw), seldom seen outside of the
Aylesbury Vale. Wychert or as it is sometimes locally spelt
whitchert, means 'white mud'.
The free-standing granary is typical for this area.
It is has a single-storey timber-framed structure, with
weather-boarded exterior walls and a hipped pyramidical roof.
Although some early granaries rested on wooden posts, from at least
the early 1600s a grid of staddlestones or brick piers were used to
support the structure and to keep the grain dry and out of the
reach of vermin.