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Basset Road, HIGH WYCOMBE, HP14 3JB

Blackboard sign outside the Grouse and Ale in Lane End Image offers fruit and vegetable growers the opportunity to barter their produce in the pub.

This large site in Lane End was most recently the premises of Elga Labwater, part of Veolia. Before that it was a bus garage of Chiltern Bus Company, see http://www.oxford-chiltern-bus-page.co.uk/230106.htm .

The house on the left recently replaced a mock tudor one of around the same size.

Formerly the Clayton Arms, this pub is on the B482 through the village.

Lane End Pond by Marlow Road

A good selection of pies as well as meat.

The information board is on the east side of the Grouse & Ale Inn in High Street HP14 3JG. It has the following wording: GROUSE & ALE The Grouse & Ale, formerly the Clayton Arms, was built in 1679 as a manor house by Sir Robert Clayton, Knight and Lord Mayor of London after the fire of London in 1666. A wealthy influential city merchant who with his accumulated wealth was able to lend £30,000 to King William III, started life as the son of a small farmer in Northants. It was his brother's family who actually lived at the manor house until it was brought by Robert Scott of Danefield in the early 18th century. By the late 19th century the Clayton Arms was occupied by the family of Fred Goodchild, organist & chair maker and in the yard was the sawmill and grinding business. The motto for the coat of arms 'Virtus in actione' means 'Manliness is in the doing'.

The pub dates from the mid 18th C and is Grade II listed with English Heritage Building ID: 46695.

The Grouse & Ale public house was formerly The Clayton Arms, named after a local landowning family. It is a Grade II Listed Building and the English Heritage Listed Buildings website describes it thus:- "Public house. Mid C18, altered. Colourwashed brick, colourwashed rendered plinth, old tile roof, brick chimneys to left end, and between right gables. 2 parallel ranges. 2 storeys, 2 bays. First floor band course angled upwards over porch and right window. 3-light barred wooden casements with segmental brick arches, the upper windows with C20 louvred shutters. Central blocked door in gabled brick porch with semi-circular arch. Entry in right side of rear range. Single storey extension of colourwashed flint and brick to left, with 2 bays of wooden casements and C20 door. Another flint and brick range at angle to rear."