The Old Doctor Butler’s Head Review: The City Pub Named for a King’s Physician | A magnificent, historic Grade II-listed pub on Masons Avenue in the City of London, named for the eccentric physician to King James I, with good cask ales, good food and a warm welcome
Cheshunt: Britain’s Official Capital of Nearly There Town Celebrates a Thousand Years of Telling People It Is Absolutely Not London By Ingrid Gustafsson CHESHUNT, HERTFORDSHIRE — Cheshunt is one of those glorious English towns that exists in a permanent state of trying to explain to Londoners that it is absolutely not London, while simultaneously ensuring every third resident catches the 7:13 train into London every weekday morning. The 7:13 is…
Red Lion Review: The Second One, and the Colour Is the Message | Six hundred of them in England, and the animal tells you nothing while the colour tells you everything
Old Doctor Butler’s Head Review: He Was a Quack and the King Loved Him | William Butler had no medical training, fired a pistol beside his patients, threw one into the Thames, and became physician to James I
Red Lion Review: The Commonest Pub Name in England | There are hundreds of them, and the leading explanation is a Scottish king who told everybody to put his badge up
