The Golden Ball

Lower Assendon, Henley-on-Thames Oxfordshire RG9 6AH

Telephone Number: 01491 574 157 thegoldenball@btinternet.com

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The Golden Ball is a brick and flint listed building, originally built as two cottages in the late 17th Century. It then became a coaching inn and staging post on the London to Oxford coach route when it had stables, changes of the horses and a blacksmith.

Dick Turpin, who “worked”

the Bath Road at Maidenhead Thicket frequented this “ale house”, used to nip upstairs into a bedroom above the smoke-room and into a recess by the chimney at the sound of approaching visitors. From there, he was able to look down through a squint to see whether or not it was safe to go downstairs.