Haunted

The pub apparently takes its name from the fact that Bonnie Prince Charlie used the inn as a hideout after he fled from Derby following his abortive attempt in 1745 to invade England and remove the Hanoverian ‘usurper’ George II from the throne.
He stayed at the inn for several weeks and the locals were told to “keep silent” about the illustrious visitor – hence the name.


Being over 400 years old the pub is reputedly haunted.  
An all-night vigil by UK Ghost Investigators in 2003 yielded children’s voices, two presences known as Thomas and Abigail, footsteps, ringing handbells and a feeling of cats around one’s feet  (over a century ago, a proprietor at the pub fed the feral cats of Stanbury and called them to her door by ringing a bell).


It is also residential and serves very good food.