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[oldboots]

This one also claims to be the smallest...

so does this one

http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Eur...photo76067.htm

and this is a list of those claiming to be the oldest in 1930

Fighting Cocks St Albans 795
Fountain Canterbury 1029
Bell Findon 1042
Ostrich Colnbrook 1106
Angel Grantham 1213
Angel Blyth (Notts) 1270
George & Dragon Speldhurst 1270
Maid's Head Norwich 1287
Green Man Erdington 1306
George Salisbury 1320

Note the Olde Trip (1189) isn't on the list and neither is the Bingley Arms at Bardsey (953), supposedly Yorkshire's oldest. I guess we'll never know.

[RogerB]

The Fighting Cocks claim is again a bit spurious. There are apparently some tunnels in the cellar that lead (not sure if they still do) to the nearby Abbey that date from the 8th century but this is hardly sufficient in my book to call it the oldest pub in the country. The impression I got was that the 14th Century pigeon house that was amalgamated into the pubs interior in the 16th Century is pretty much the oldest part of the main structure and the rest consists of 19th Century add ons. I got all this from blurb in the pub itself and stuck it in my review!

[ETA]

Then you get all the argument about definitons of "oldest" - longest continuous use as a pub, earliest reference, oldest building (whether or not i was a hostelry), earliest licence, etc etc

[Farway]

Ref north / south etc, are we talking mainland Britain or British Isles? If latter then the pubs of Channel Islands, Orkneys, etc must be in there

The most remotest for me is the one you are trying to reach when busting for a pee

[ROBCamra]

The Lakeside Inn - Southport has a certificate from the Guiness Book Of Records stating that it was the smallest.

http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/56477/

[RogerB]

Lakeside Inn 22ft X 16ft = 352sq ft.

Nutshell 15ft X 7ft = 105sq ft.

If you counted the upstairs room at the Nutshell I doubt it would surpass the Lakeside total. Also, the Nutshell doesn't have any outside seating!

[ROBCamra]

Lakeside Inn 22ft X 16ft = 352sq ft.

Nutshell 15ft X 7ft = 105sq ft.

If you counted the upstairs room at the Nutshell I doubt it would surpass the Lakeside total. Also, the Nutshell doesn't have any outside seating!

Or pehaps not anymore, see here.

http://www.whitebeertravels.co.uk/signal.html

Signal Box Inn = 64 sq ft

http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/63577/

[RogerB]

I read somewher that the Rake in Borough is 13ft X 7ft (91sq ft) so that would be smaller than the Nutshell as long as the outside patio doesn't come into the equation. Not as small as the Signal Box though.

[Pubsignman]

I read somewher that the Rake in Borough is 13ft X 7ft (91sq ft) so that would be smaller than the Nutshell as long as the outside patio doesn't come into the equation. Not as small as the Signal Box though.

I have to say that those measurements for the Rake don't sound right to me (in fact, they sound more like the dimensions of the big fridges full of foreign beers at the back!!). I was in there on Saturday and for my feeling the pub is a lot bigger than the Nutshell.

[Paris_Hilton]

This is the most south-westerly (on the mainland)

http://www.firstandlastinn.co.uk/

http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/63985/

And this is the only pub to which Her Majesty has made an official visit

http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/7875/

it has been in the same family for over 111 years, celebrated with the brewing of a specially bottled beer named, er, 111, and very good it is too