History

In 1355, an inn in Oegstgeest was mentioned for the first time. This inn owes its name 'De Voskuyl' to the fact that people in the area catch foxes in a pit. In 1517 the inn was destroyed, rebuilt and sermons were held there.
The road on which the inn is located connects historic Leiden with the fishing villages of Noordwijk and Katwijk on the coast of the North Sea. It is along this road that in 1926 two enterprising young men bought 6,000 m² of land with an idyllic white house on it, with the idea of ​​starting a tea shop there. One of them, Leo van der Putten, is an imaginative garden expert who got his ideas in England. Once back in Holland, Van der Putten wants to try his luck in garden architecture. His companion in this adventure, the carpenter Brik, converts the small house into a tearoom. Thanks to the now three-century-old beech, the name has been changed to 'De Beukenhof'.

Van der Putten designs a walking garden and, together with Brik, starts selling plants and serving tea to noble families on their way to the city or sea. In 1948 the pub changed into De Beukenhof as we know it today.