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Queens Head, Uxbridge black plaque

Uxbridge, Hillingdon, England, United Kingdom

Queens Head The earliest documented evidence of a public house on this site is 1544 but it is more likely that it dates back even further. It has been known as "The Axe". Presumably at the time of Anne Boleyn's beheading, then "The Angel", "The Jolly Ostler", "The Hostelry", and then "The Queens Hea

d" to commemorate Anne Bolyen, who is depicted in our pictorial sign today. Unusually, the pub had its licence taken away in the early 18th century for around 25 years and disappeared from records unt

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