’s Head Inn Amersham

General Information

The Saracen’s Head Inn is a conventional English pub serving authentic ales, excellent wines and home cooked food each lunchtime and evening. The original stables nearby the patio have been converted into modish, homely en-suite lodging accessible for Bed and Breakfast. During the conversion, we discovered an metro bear pit close to the vault. This was used for bear 'baiting' (fighting) over 300years ago, thankfully a custom no longer maintained! We are located a stone’s throw away from the modish butiques and shops in the High Street of Amersham Old Town. Trains from Amersham Station go directly into London in less than 30mins. It's also greatly popular with walkers who want to discover the rural area nearby us. Amersham - probably more than any other similar little city in England - preserves in the streets of the Old Town the same general appearance that it displayed during the 17th and 18th centuries. There is evidence that a Roman Villa existed in the region (any remains now believed buried under Shardeloes Lane). However, the origins of the city go back to pre Saxon times. Amersham was then called Agmodesham. The Doomsday Book listed Amersham as Elmodesham, with 6 manors, one belonging to the wife of Edward the Confessor. In 1200, King John granted the city a market place and fair, the fair is restful held each year on the nineteenth and 20th of September, the market place each Tuesday, but it features moved to Amersham on the Hill. The Reformation had some roots in the city as a few Lollards were condemned to death and burnt at the stake, a memorial on the hill above the city commemorates this event and in year 2001 the persons of Amersham performed a community play re creating the occasions of the time.