No-one really knows why the Green Dragon is so named but it is believed to have emanated from a Welsh knight, home from the crusades, who could have been colour blind or lost or both. There has been a building on this site since the 12th century. Unlike most pubs opposite churches, it has never been owned by the Church but by the Lords of the Manor who leased it out to innkeepers, many of whom had two trades such as cordwainer (shoemaker) blacksmith or gardener.
					By 1840 the pub was privately owned by one James Pitts and then sold on to a Dartmouth Brewery before ending up being a Heavitree House which it is to-day.
					The earliest recorded landlord was one William Lidstone in 1607 whose occupation was then known as a "Licensed Tippler". The present "Tipplers" are Peter & Alix Crowther.
					Rumour has it there was once an old "cuddy" on the premises which was made use of by H.M the King George VI when he was Prince of Wales and also the late King George V.
		The pub is very traditional with a stone floor, a large and splendid fireplace, wooden beams, a tunnel somewhere underneath the floor which went down to the nearby beach and, some say, a ghost. But time and history have left the old building unscathed by drama or scandal.