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The Green Dragon, Hemel Hempstead

Pub added by elizabeth mcgraw
Flaunden Hill
Flaunden
Postal town: Hemel Hempstead
HP3 0PP
Phone: 01442832269
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Graham Coombs left this review about The Green Dragon

Country pub modernised almost out of recognition, apart from the splendid tap room mentioned below, although even this has had a flat screen added for no apparent reason. The rest of the interior has a very clean and tidy, stripped back brick and timber feel which may well seem smart to the well-heeled clientele but is hardly authentic. A large pizza oven dominates the left room, while the once ramshackle barn has been turned into a pristine function room. Outside the manicured and well-tabled garden has partly been given over to a large marquee, also full of tables. You do wonder where all the customers come from (and where they park). Having said all that, the tap room is still well worth a visit and the beers seemed in very good condition, being 3 assorted from Rebellion, Young's Original and TT Landlord.

On 14th September 2021 - rating: 6
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Steve of N21 left this review about The Green Dragon

The Green Dragon is an early 17th Century country Inn situated in the picturesque rural village of Flaunden, in the Chiltern Hills. This ancient rural pub is a free house and has been in the same family for over eighty years.
Internally the pub has two distinctive bar areas around the L shaped corner bar. The front section is plain tiled floored and popular with local walkers and is dog friendly and then the larger brick walled section to the left is smarter and carpeted and accommodates both drinkers and the diners who come here for the pub Thai food menu.
Then outside there are a couple of tables to the front of the pub but better still a secluded spacious country garden which can only be reached from inside the pub with various seating areas including a sheltered area for the smokers and a section with children’s games which includes a table top chess set.
The pub supports four hand pumps which regularly dispense Fuller's London Pride and Gales HSB, St Austell Tribute and Young's Bitter and the couple I tried were very well kept.
All the above would be enough for me to consider it a pub worthy of recommendation to be searched out. But for those interested in pubs and pub history another reason is that The Green Dragon is included in the Heritage pub national inventory for the barely altered 19th century Tap Room which you can find back inside the main building on the front right hand side of the main bar area.
This Tap room has remained largely unchanged over the last 200 years. Built-in high backed bench seating forms a passage into a small quarry tiled floor room which has basic bare seating attached to very old dado panelling all around the room, two old long tables with Formica tops added to them, and two basic low benches. The walls are festooned with interesting old brewery posters from Cannon, Taylor Walker and Benskins and early black and white photos showing former locals, especially one of them all seated around a radio listening to a war time broadcast.
And another historical claim to fame for the Green Dragon pub is in the form of former famous (or should say infamous) regulars in the form of Joachim von Ribbentrop and Guy Burgess. Ribbentrop was Nazi Germany’s Ambassador to London before WWII who had a weekend holiday home in the nearby village of Latimer. He is in the history books as being the very first of the Nazi hierarchy to be hanged following the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. And British Diplomat Guy Burgess was a regular visitor to the village and the pub and the Tap room of the Green Dragon was his last seen appearance in England when he met with Donald Maclean before he left the country in 1951 to defect to the Soviet Union.

On 8th August 2013 - rating: 8
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Pub location see interactive map of local area
Map location corrected by Bucking Fastard
Chalfont & Latimer, 2.72 miles, 52 min walk (show)
Chorleywood, 3.91 miles, 1 hr 15 min walk (show)
Amersham, 4.64 miles, 1 hr 29 min walk (show)
Latest updates View all updates for The Green Dragon, Flaunden
16th Sep 2021, 19:28
Picture submitted by Graham Coombs approved
 
16th Sep 2021, 19:28
Picture submitted by Graham Coombs approved

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  • Accommodation : No last updated 10 April 2021 by ROB Camra
  • Beer Festivals : No last updated 10 April 2021 by ROB Camra
  • Beer Garden : Yes last updated 10 April 2021 by ROB Camra
  • CAMRA Discount : No last updated 10 April 2021 by ROB Camra
  • Car Park : Yes last updated 10 April 2021 by ROB Camra
  • Child Friendly : Yes last updated 10 April 2021 by ROB Camra
  • Dog Friendly : Yes last updated 10 April 2021 by ROB Camra
  • Hot Food : Yes - Lunchtime only - last updated 10 April 2021 by ROB Camra
  • Live Music : No last updated 10 April 2021 by ROB Camra
  • Live TV Sports : No last updated 10 April 2021 by ROB Camra
  • Micropub : No last updated 10 April 2021 by ROB Camra
  • Real Ale : Yes last updated 10 April 2021 by ROB Camra
  • Real Cider : Yes - Summer only - last updated 10 April 2021 by ROB Camra
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