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Morland House History

Part of the site that is now Morland House we believe dates back approximately 400 years with Chinnor and the surrounding area playing a significant role during the English Civil War.

Many skirmishes where fought on and around the Chiltern Hills including the battle for Chinnor where the Royalists (Cavaliers) under the command of Prince Rupert swept down from the Chiltern hills and put to rout a group of Parliamentarians (Roundheads) based in Chinnor. It is said that the High Street ran with blood as a band of 10 Roundheads were slaughtered during the initial contact. The village was then sacked with many of the original thatched buildings torched and raised to the ground.

It is said that Prince Rupert set up a temporary head quarters in "Luctons" a thatched cottage with a stable next to the Morland House site, it was here that he rested his men and horses making camp around the pond at the rear of the cottage. It is also rumoured that a further number of Roundheads were dispatched and their bodies dumped in the pond.

The stable attached to "Luctons" where Prince Rupert stabled his horse is now part of Morland House being sold to the previous owners in more recent times.

The site had been an old ale house and extended over the years in many different styles, it now comprises of a part thatched part slated brick and timber construction run for many years as the "Bird in Hand" public house.

Morland House, Station Road, Chinnor, Oxfordshire OX39 4QA
Tel: 01844 355660 ... Fax: 01844 355661
Email: info@morlandhouse.co.uk ... Web: www.morlandhouse.co.uk