Address
Penderel's Oak (Pub)
283-288 High Holborn, London
Location
On High Holborn, a main road going east-west between the City of London and the City of Westminster.
By Tube
5 minutes from Holborn or Chancery Lane tubes - both are on the Central Line, and Holborn is also on the Piccadilly. About 15 minutes walk from Tottenham Court Road (Northern, Central) and Temple (District, Circle).
By Bus
Numbers: 8, 25, 242, 501 and 521 pass the Penderel's Oak on High Holborn.
Many more go down Theobolds Road (19, 38, 55), Kingsway (1, 59, 68, 91, 168, 171, 188, 243, X68) and Gray's Inns Road (17, 45, 46, 341), all of which are about 10 minutes' walk from the pub.
Info
We tend to meet in the Cellar Bar, in the, erm, cellar, if we can as it has more space.
This used to be the standard meeting place for all social occasions, and is still used occasionally.
Bar food is available in the evenings.
The pub gets its name from the oak tree belonging to a 17th-century nobleman called Richard Penderel, which stood in the estate of his country home, Boscobel. On May 29th, 1652, King Charles I, fleeing from execution by Oliver Cromwell's troops, was given shelter in it by Penderel and successfully avoided being killed. This led to May the 29th becoming the traditional English celebration known as Oak Apple Day.