The Rose and Crown

at Maldon

Welcome to the Rose and Crown at Maldon.

The Rose and Crown is one of Maldon’s premier pubs and is the perfect venue to enjoy excellent food and good beers in a convivial and relaxing atmosphere.

The landlady Sheena guarantees you a warm welcome. The pub has retained all the good things that have made the place so popular over the years.

The Rose and Crown is on the High Street in Maldon and is an old symbol going back to the Wars of the Roses.

The Rose and Crown was built in the early 16th century and has seen many changes. One room still has the original moulded ceiling beams and the first floor has an original cambered hollow-chamfered tie-beam with curved brackets.

Maldon is a thriving town on the Blackwater estuary in Essex, England. It is the seat of the Maldon District and starting point of the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation.

The town is twinned with the Dutch town of Cuijk. The charter between the two towns was signed in 1970 to cement the relationship.

Maldon's name comes from Mael meaning 'meeting place' and dun meaning 'hill', so translated as "meeting place on the hill". East Saxons settled the area in the fifth century and the area to the south is still known as the Dengie peninsula after the Dæningas.

Maldon became a significant Saxon port with a hythe or Quayside and artisan quarters. Evidence of imported pottery from this period has been found in archaeological digs. From 958 there was a royal mint issuing coins for the late Anglo-Saxon and early Norman kings.

Along with Colchester Maldon was one of the only two towns in Essex, and King Edward the Elder lived here while combating the Danish settlers who had overrun North Essex and parts of East Anglia.

A Viking raid was beaten off in 924, but in another raid in 991 the defenders were defeated in the Battle of Maldon and the Vikings received tribute but apparently did not attempt to sack the town. It became the subject of the epic poem Battle of Maldon.

According to the Domesday Book there were 180 townsmen in 1086. The town still had a mint and supplied a warhorse and warship for the king's service in return for its privileges of self-government.