The Green Man Inn and the Cattle Pound of Putney Heath

The Green Man about 1900.

The Green Man Inn, Putney Heath, features in two Difficult Dukes books, most recently in Ten Things I Hate About the Duke.

It stands on the crest of Putney Hill, where the Heath and the Portsmouth Road begin Charles Harper tells us, in The Old Inns of Old England (1906). But Harper spends most of his time on the highwaymen and footpads whose hangout it apparently was in the 18th century. My story comes some years later, on the brink of the Victorian era, and my...