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1. There are roughly 54,000 pubs in the entire United Kingdom.

2. The most popular pub name in Britain is The Red Lion 760 pubs have this name.

3. The Ye Olde Fighting Cocks in St. Albans, Herts, holds the Guinness record for the oldest pub, dating back to the 11th Century.

4. Corrie's Pub - The Rovers Return - has had 13 landlords and landladies, 12 temporary managers and 52 barmaids.

5. The Ploughman's Lunch only began in 1960. It was a marketing ploy to boost the sale of cheese.

6. Collecting 'beer mats' from pubs is called Tegestology

7. A survey for the UKTV chnnel found that 'Wonderwall' by Oasis was the top pub anthem.

8. East London's 'Blind Beggar' pub, where gangster Ronnie Kray shot George Cornell in 1966 is the nation's most notorious boozer.

9. King Edgar, worried about the nation's prodigious drinking habits, passed a law in 965 saying there should only be one ale house per village. Fortunately he was ignored.

For those who didn't ALREADY know!

Hmmm. Milwaukee.
U.S. Home of the brewery.
Nickname: Brew Town
Baseball Team: The Brewers.
Let's compare who is more drunkerer. <hic>


Population of only 5,686,986. UK=61,792,000
65,503 square miles. UK=94,251 square miles.

Pubs? How about 19,533 Pubs, Bars, or Bars that serve food.
(1) pub for every 291 people. Should your most common question be: "Can I get a beer?"

In Wisconsin your answer would be: "Hell yes brother, and now that the pints are only 50 cents, let me buy you one!"

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thank you

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The Fighting Cocks is indeed the oldest - and happens to be in the town where I was educated to the age of 18. St. Albans - off the beaten tourist track but well worth a visit for its Roman ruins and the best Museum in the country dedicated to all things Romano-British.

Lots of history - The Fleur de Lys pub is possibly from 1217. The White Hart and the Peahen Hotels were coaching inns and the town'sprosperity in past times was due to the fact that St. Albans was the first staging post out of London on Watling Street where coaches on their way to all points northwest would stop.

The Battles of St. Albans were important in the Wars of the Roses.

Of course there is also the Abbey church and next to that the Abbey School where Stephen Hawkin was educated.

I could go on - Winchester? Salisbury? all bollox compared to St. Albans.

Go when you're over that way, it's worth it and not crowded out by tourists.