Butlers Drive, E4

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This road takes its name from a former occupant of a temperance house that was built within the forest to provide non-alcoholic refreshments for visitors. Butlers Retreat, a mid-19thCentury barn run by John Butler, who had previously been serving teas near the then newly created Connaught Water, in 1891. Today it is a Grade II listed building.

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