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Picture source: Hania Franek
The Rising Sun closed in 2010 and is now in private residential use.
From The Good Pub Guide 1983:
Splendidly placed for walks in the Chilterns, this pub has a big inglenook fireplace to stretch your legs in front of in its quarry-tiled public bar (get the mud off your boots first, though, or they won't let you in). There are comfortable seats around the tables in the Turkey-carpeted lounge bar, which does a brisk trade in big helping of ploughman's (£1.10), jacket potatoes filled with cottage cheese and fruit (£1.50), smoked mackerel (£1.80), moussaka, lasagne and herby sausagemeat pie (£2.30). A separate restaurant which opened in the spring of 1983 specialises in fish (closed Sunday evening and Monday). Well-kept Adnams, Brakspears Special, Greene King Abbot and Sam Smith on handpumps; darts, shove-ha'penny and dominoes in the public bar. A pretty back garden slopes up behind the plain brick house, and there are tables among some roses on the sloping grass in front. Though the lane peters out here, bridle paths lead on through the woods both to Coombe Hill (National Trust - with fine views) and to Dunsmore, about a mile away.
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Name Dates Comments Carole Pearson (nee Hutchinson) 1991/1992 I was a member of staff in the kitchen, working for Rory Dawson, the publican. It was a live in job. I have very fond memories of this beautiful place and it’s walks. Sunday Fox hunts and roast dinners William Beirne 1990/1991 Hello to Rory the proprietor, I visited many times from Ireland, great memories, great pub and food.Married my wife Martina after courting her in this pub. After returning from overseas service in the middle east I found this oasis. Rory to be fair canceled many a holiday when he heard I was visiting bless him. If he reads this Martina and myself wish him all the best and thanks for the memories, especially the New Year's eve
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Picture source: Bernard Lamb
Bar of The Rising Sun from 'A picture of Buckinghamshire' by Elizabeth Cull and Elizabeth Ogan	Picture source: Sam Knight