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The Crown was situated at 38 High Street. One of the four major posting inns, shown to the left of The Chequers on the Uxbridge Panorama. Originally called the Three Swans, it became The Crown & Cushion in 1759, and The Crown in 1802.

Source: Tony Mitchell

27. Old Crown Yard or Harris’s Yard, a narrow roadway with greensward on either side where the troopers exercise on foot in the afternoons. This lane leads to the large private house which extends the whole width at the end, and occupied by Mr Solomon Harris, his twin sons, Sol & Jim, and two finely built daughters. On the left side of this lane are two old houses with finely gabled backs, with dormer windows in roofs, no doubt the top and bedrooms and outbuildings of The Crown, a very large inn at the time of the attempted Treaty in the days of Charles I, 1645, and at which the King’s Commissioners stayed during the negotiations.

Peregrinations of a Kiddy, 1873

The Crown & Cushion was put up for auction on Monday, 5 August, 1799. The sales particulars said the inn comprised: A substantial, modern, commodious Dwelling House, with a neat uniform Front, and Bow Windows. Thirty-two good Sleeping Rooms, twenty of which are neatly papered and genteely fitted up. Four excellent Dining Rooms. A lofty Ball Room, 44 feet by 22, very elegantly fitted up, with enrich’d Cornice, folding Doors, and Orchestra; a large Card Room. Three good sized Parlours; Coffee Room; two Bar Rooms; an excellent Bar; China Closets; Store Room; Dressing Rooms; Larder; Kitchen; Scullery; Laundry; and good vaulted Beer, Wine and Spirit Cellars. Two spacious Yards, nearly surrounded by excellent Stabling for 130 Horses, with Lofts and Corn Rooms; Open and enclosed Coach-houses; two large Tap Rooms; Post-boys Rooms; Soldier’s Dining and Sleeping Rooms; Harnefs House; Bottle House; Coal Shed; Blacksmith’s Shop; Carpenter’s Loft. An excellent Garden, walled round and well planted, - together with a rich Meadow of near two Acres, with a good Stable, situate nearly adjoining. Held on Lease, thirteen Years of which are unexpired at Christmas next, at the low Rent of ONE HUNDRED & SIXTY POUNDS per Annum. The whole has been recently improved at a very considerable Expence, and is in a state of perfect repair. The Purchaser may be accommodated with the Stoves and other Fixtures, at a fair valuation, if desired. Woodbridge and Sons, Solicitors, later occupied this site, and a letter dated 1939 from Francis Woodbridge states that in 1747 The Three Swans was at this address. By 1759 it had become The Crown & Cushion, and in 1802 The Crown.

Letter in the T H Riches box in the Local Studies Section of Uxbridge Library.

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