The Crown, Cuddington

From the Archive

Four people described this pub between the 1850s and the 1950s. None of them were comparing notes.

Peter Wenham of the Cuddington Historical Society has been collecting the village's memories of its pubs for years. What follows is drawn from four of his accounts, rearranged so that each piece follows one thread across a century rather than one witness across a decade.

  1. 5 October 2026

    The women who came in by the back door

    For a hundred years this was not really a place for the women of the village. Then the village bought it.

    Four accounts, 1850s to today

  2. 5 October 2026

    Knocking on the wall

    Dominoes, shove penny, water from the well, and a hundred years of banging on the partition for another drink.

    Three accounts, 1850s to 1950s

  3. 5 October 2026

    Handbells and VJ Day

    Bell ringers in the tap room at Christmas, a darts team taken to London in 1945, and an RAF band in the garden.

    Two accounts, 1900s to 1950s

  4. 5 October 2026

    The last one standing

    Four pubs. Three became somebody's front room. This is what happened to the fourth.

    Local history, 1756 to now

Drawn from accounts by Peter Wenham and the Cuddington Historical Society, rearranged and reworded for this page. Short quotations from Peter Wenham are marked as his. One racial nickname used of a villager has been left out.