The Edmund Tylney (1), 30-34 High Street
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The Edmund Tylney (1), 30-34 High Street
Image: © P L Chadwick Taken: 14 Aug 2010
The Edmund Tylney is a large new pub opened here by the J D Wetherspoon pub chain, on the 19th December 1997. It is named after the man who was Master of the Revels to Queen Elizabeth I, and for a few years also to King James I. An important part of Tylney's work was to censor plays for the stage, and in particular to remove any politically controversial elements. He lived in Leatherhead, at a building known as The Mansion. This was not on the site of the pub, as has sometimes been claimed (but not by Wetherspoons), but on the site of the present library. Quite why anyone would want to name a new pub after a no doubt worthy but now rather obscure figure from history, is something known only to Wetherspoons. Image Image
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