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A pub just off Dacre Park Road, between Blackheath and Lee. It's a locals' pub, but a good one, very pleasant place. A few decent ales, but mainly just a friendly cosy pub.

Address: 11 Kingswood Place. Owner: Courage (former). Links: Randomness Guide to London Fancyapint Pubs Galore Beer in the Evening Dead Pubs (history)

The coat of arms is in the shape of a lozenge, borne by a female armiger. Quarterly of 4:

• 1: Per fesse azure and or a pale counterchanged three buck's heads erased of the second (Roper, Baron Dacre)
• 2: Or, on a fess gules three fleur-de-lys of the field (Lennard, a Roper heiress: Henry Roper, 8th Baron Teynham (c. 1676–1723), married Anne Lennard, suo jure 16th Baroness Dacre (1684–1755), a daughter and eventual sole heiress of Thomas Lennard, 1st Earl of Sussex, 15th Baron Dacre (1654–1715)).
• 3: Gules, three escallops argent (Dacre, Baron Dacre)
• 4: Per bend sinister ermine and ermines, a lion rampant or (Arms of Trevor of Plas Teg (descended from Tudor Trevor, a chieftan of the Marches of Wales); also arms of Brand, Baron Dacre);

overall an inescutcheon of pretence Sable, a cross patoncée between four escallops argent each charged with a cross patoncée of the field (Fludyer).

Thus the escutcheon appears to be that of Mary Jane Fludyer (Lady Dacre) (1755-11 Sept 1808), who died at Dacre House/Park, the wife of Trevor Charles Roper, 18th Baron Dacre (1745–1794) of Belhouse in Essex and of Dacre Park in the parish of Lee in Kent, i.e. the estate of which presumably included the site of this pub. Roper was the eldest of three children of the Hon. Charles Roper (1721-1754) and Gertrude Trevor (1713-1780), heiress of the Trevor family seated at w:Plas Teg, near Mold, Flintshire, Wales. Lady Dacre was the wife of Trevor Charles Roper, 18th Baron Dacre (1745–1794) and the daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Fludyer (1711-1769), of Lee, MP and an Alderman of the City of London (younger brother of Sir Samuel Fludyer, 1st Baronet (c.1704-1768)), by his wife Mary Champion, daughter and heiress of Sir George Champion (d.1754) of Lee, MP and Alderman of the City of London.

The elaborate tomb of the Fludyer brothers and their wives, a grade II* listed structure,[1] survives in the churchtyard of Old Lee Church. Lady Dacre (Mary Fludyer) renamed her father's house (inherited from the Champion family) "Dacre House". (Not "Lee House" which was owned by the Boone family during her lifetime) ("The Dowager Lady Dacre has a villa at this place, which was the seat of her father Sir Thomas Fludyer, Knt." (Daniel Lysons, 'Lee', in The Environs of London: Volume 4, Counties of Herts, Essex and Kent (London, 1796), pp. 500-513[2]))

Mary Fldyer and her husband Baron Dacre had three seats, one in Belhouse in Essex, another at Dacre House in Lee in Kent, and Plas Teg, their house and estate near Mold, Flintshire. He became Lord Dacre on Jan. 13, 1786, at the death of his paternal half-uncle Thomas Barrett-Lennard (1717-1786) the 17th Baron. Trevor Charles Roper's younger brother Lt. Col. Henry Roper was reportedly killed in a duel on Dec. 21, 1788. As neither of the brothers had children, their sister Gertrude Brand became 19th Baroness Dacre upon his death. (Gertrude Brand, 19th Baroness Dacre (1750–1819)).

Memorial Inscription of the Lord and Lady Dacre from the south side of Old St. Margaret’s Church in Lee, Kent:

"Sacred to the Right Honourable Trevor Charles Roper, Baron Dacre born the 25th June 1745.

Married the 2nd of March 1773 Mary Jane daughter of Sir Thomas Fludyer Kt and died at his seat in this parish 3rd of July 1794 aged 49 most universally and deservedly lamented. He was a most devout and pious Christian strictly attentive to the performance of every duty to God and man a loyal and faithful subject a zealous supporter of his King and Country a dutiful son affectionate brother a gentle master sincere friend humane benefactor to the poor and a firm protector of the distressed he was a most kind constant and tender husband to his truly afflicted widow who was a testimonial of their distinguished unclouded union for upwards of 21 years their unexampled happiness and of the unbounded confidence in which they lived and as a sincere token of her real gratitude for his uniform endearing affection and particular generosity her deep felt sorrow and tenderest remembrance has erected this unadorned monument and herself inscribed these well known truths to his beloved memory convinced they are most consonant to the purity of his life his mild disposition his amiable temper and genuine character and his numberless virtues his great benevolence and engaging manners are so universally allowed their loss so truly regretted by every rank and that her unabating attachment and sincere affection are so fully known there can be no stronger acknowledgment of his eminent perfections and her heartfelt grief. The meek Christian adorned with perfect faith the virtuous man accompanied by good works relied through divine mediation with humble hope upon the mercy of his god. The resigned Christian submits with pious faith to the will of her God and trusts through the same intercession to his mercy with brightest hope of lasting reunion in eternal bliss. His faithful and mournful widow survived her beloved and deeply lamented husband 14 years 8 months and 8 days and died at her seat in this parish 11th of September 1808 aged 53. Her conduct evinced meek resignation and firm faith constant affection and sincere remembrance and she lived a striking example of submission and trust attachment and hope."