The Old White Hart Public House.
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For way over a hundred year
this building has been known as the White Hart and like so many public houses,
the breweries or new free house owners decide without consultation that a name
change is in order. The old White Hart has had two such name changes in the
last few years. To a lot of old residents, though it has had a name change,
still refer to it as the White Hart. The emblem of the White Hart was adopted
as a royal emblem by Richard II for his livery, and an albino Hart Stag was a
very rare find in Windsor Great Park, which at one time included Cookham.
I can only conclude
that the present owner must be a great fan of Mazo de la Roche who wrote the book, “The White Oaks of
Jalna.”
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