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Where Is England's Oldest Pub? An Archaeologist Drilled Into 600-Year-Old Timbers to Answer the Contentious Question
Culture & Education
Smithsonian MagazineEN
October 30, 2026

Where Is England's Oldest Pub? An Archaeologist Drilled Into 600-Year-Old Timbers to Answer the Contentious Question

Tree-ring dating shows that a historic tavern in Somerset has been continually operating as an inn since the 1430s, when local monks built it to lodge wool merchants

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