Holtspur: King's Head
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Holtspur: King's Head
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 26 Jul 2014
Victorian Ordnance Survey maps show that Holtspur was then really not a lot more than the King's Head, presumably a coaching inn on the main route connecting London and Oxford, and a now long-lost brick works. Today the King's Head is a Harvester restaurant on the A40 (the Harvester Beaconsfield), but you would struggle to see evidence of its original name (it's there in red under the dark green oval Harvester sign, if you look closely, but sadly lacking the apostrophe). See http://www.harvester.co.uk/harvesterbeaconsfieldholtspur/ for details. Another sign of the times is the advert for hot tubs on the roundabout.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.599683
Longitude
-0.669926