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High Street, LEATHERHEAD, KT22 8AW

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

Pub named after a government official of the 16th/early 17th centuries, who lived in Leatherhead, but not on this site. See:- Image

A large Wetherspoons pub in the High Street. See also:- Image

Looking west along High Street.

Shops on High Street. The building on the right, no 26, is on the site of the original King's Head pub, which old photos show jutting out into High Street. It closed in 1929, with a replacement pub being built next door, visible on the far right of the photo, this in turn closing in the 1960s.

Wetherspoons pub in High Street, housed in what had been from 1956 until the late 1990s the Leatherhead branch of Woolworths. Sir Edmund Tylney was Master of Revels to Queen Elizabeth I and King James I who lived at the predecessor to the Mansion in Church Street.

Building on High Street on the site of the original King's Head pub, which old photos show jutting out into High Street. It closed in 1929, with a replacement pub being built next door, part visible on the right of the photo, this in turn closing in the 1960s. The name is still commemorated in King's Head Alley, seen on the right between the two buildings.

Wetherspoons pub in High Street, housed in what had been from 1956 until the late 1990s the Leatherhead branch of Woolworths. Sir Edmund Tylney was Master of Revels to Queen Elizabeth I and King James I who lived at the predecessor to the Mansion in Church Street.

Italian restaurant in what until the 1960s was the King's Head pub, itself a replacement of the original King's Head pub, now replaced by 26 High Street, the next building along, situated on the other side of King's Head Alley.

Family run DIY and hardware shop, which has been in business for over 50 years. Definitely the place to come if you want a ladder.