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2023-12-25 13:05:03 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 5363547D3E48EA79D8189B672980F337DEBAB49F175A24783DE760090CEE7C23
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It is very unlikely that this is the oldest pub in England. This is a dovecote of c1400 that was resited as a domestic house c1600. It was called The 3 Pigeons in the 1750s and Fighting Cocks by 1807. The ludicrous claim to antiquity was invented in the 1890s. https://www.stalbanshistory.org/social-history/industry/the-enigmatic-history-of-the-fighting-cocks https://twitter.com/jpwarchaeology/status/1738862613612634219 https://www.historyextra.com/period/general-history/britain-england-oldest-pub-where-how-identify/
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