Kent. Named after the actor who worked as an errand boy locally. The Shakespeare, Redland, Shakespeare's Tree, Bidford-on-Avon, Warwickshire: Used to celebrate the Bard's genius. Walpole Arms, Itteringham. Named after Robert Walpole, Britain's first prime minister. General Wolfe, Laxfield : named after the military hero. Places The Australia Inn, Tydd St. Giles (closed) supposedly named as the intended destination of a former occupant. The Chislett, Long Sutton, Lincolnshire. Formerly The Ship, the pub was renamed by the new owners after their relations originating from the village of Chislett in Kent. Horse Shoe Hole Inn, Leverington was located near the River Nene horse shoe feature. Tavistock Inn, as for example at Poundsgate, Dartmoor. Twelve Pins or Na Beanna Beola (Finsbury Park, London): the Twelve Pins mountain range in the west of Ireland. Plants and horticulture The most common tree-based pub name is the Royal Oak, which refers to a Historical event. Artichoke Tavern, Blackwall refers to a plant. Flower Pot, Mirfield, Maidstone, Kent, Aston, Oxfordshire, Henley-on-Thames and Wisbech, Isle of Ely. Flowerpots, Cheriton, Hampshire. Hand and Flower, Hammersmith, London, also Ham, Surrey. Hand and Flowers, Marlow. Rose Tavern, a pub in Wisbech, Isle of Ely. Vine or Grapes possibly harks back to the Roman custom of displaying a vine outside a tavern or wine-shop, as in The Hoop and Grapes in Aldgate High Street, London (reputed to be the city's oldest pub) and the Vine, Wisbech (now closed). Wheatsheaf, a Wetherspoon pub in Wisbech. Yew Tree, Bassingbourne. Named for Taxus baccata the English Yew. Politically incorrect All labour in vain or Labour in vain. At various locations. Probably of Biblical origins, in past times the name was often illustrated by a person trying to scrub the blackness off a black child. Such signs have been mostly replaced with more innocuous depictions of wasted effort. There are numerous old pubs and inns in England with the name of the Black Boy(s), many now claimed to refer either to child chimneysweeps or coal miners, or to a (genuine) historic description of King Charles II. The Black Boy Inn in Caernarfon, North Wales, has received at least a dozen complaints from visitors over the name, which dates back at least 250 years. In 2021 brewer Greene King changed the names of three pubs called The Black Boy, and another called The Black's Head. The Black Bitch, a pub in Linlithgow, West Lothian, is named