This Cafe is where you park the car to walk to Runnymede: the site where King John signed and sealed the Magna Carta. We stopped here for morning coffee and had an excellent English breakfast for 6 pounds. Fresh, super fresh eggs. Real ham slabs. Baked beans. Sausage.
Three things this cafe had that was unique: 1) the tea pot made out of used tea bags. I guarantee this will be the first and last teapot you see like this 2) they sell the 1215 Magna Carta in a sturdy cardboard tube, a cardboard tube I haven't seen sold anywhere else and 3) they sell a nice version I haven't seen elsewhere of the Kings and Queens of England family tree with England's history timeline alongside it.
When you're done eating, walk to the Runnymede Memorial. The Memorial is free and takes less than an hour to view. Parking is about 1,50 pounds per hour that you pay via a machine (based upon an honor system). Give the machine exact change otherwise consider yours a free donation. read more