This old Morland’s pub was at the north end of the Little Green and, for many years, displayed a sign stating that it was half way between Birmingham and Bournemouth. Important information for holiday makers in the days when the road through the village was the main A34 route south.

The pub was also home to the village football and cricket teams before the founding of the Sports Club. It was often claimed that the Kings Arms was the oldest pub in the village.

An 1854 gazette shows the Kings Arms was run by a victualler called Benjamin Belcher. And by 1887 the pub was run by Isaac Union.

In the 1930s C H P Harris advertised a ‘Coal, Haulage & Removals’ business based at the Kings Arms but by mid-1938 this had been taken over by Mr G R Webb. 

A fire on 14th June 1877 destroyed half of the pub and its outbuildings, as well as a cottage and a barn belonging to William Tyrrell