Packed with history: ex-Royal Brewery, Brentford, a former coaching inn that was a favourite watering hole and place of refuge for notorious highwayman John Tibbet and later served as a Masonic meeting place. A spacious, comfortable pub with wood-panelled rooms and log fires. Food is braai. Opens earlier during the Rugby World Cup. Now refurbished. Garden reopened on 12 April 2021. Book via website /reservations Real ale discontinued in 2024 but reinstated by March 2025: a house beer brewed by Greene King and one guest from their limited list.

By summer 2026, new operators MFM Pub Group Ltd had invested heavily in improving this pub, only to be threatened with eviction by Heineken. As at 2 September, the pub remains open, with two Surrey-brewed Exmoor beers on the handpumps. An ACV nomination is in view.