Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem is a public house in Nottingham which claims to have been established in 1189; however, there is no documentation to verify this date. The building rests against Castle Rock, upon which Nottingham Castle is built, and is attached to several caves, carved out of the soft sandstone. These were reputedly originally used as a brewhouse for the castle, though there is no evidence for this, but they may date to the medieval period. Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem is one of several pubs claiming to be the oldest in England
Oldest town in Britain much evidence of activity in Colchester until the early fifth century AD, after which it becomes more scarce. Although there are scattered settlement sites, burials and artefacts in Colchester from between the fifth and ninth centuries AD there is a debate over whether it could be called a “town” in this period (see ). Aside from a ninth-century reference by Nennius to a "Caer Colun", the first time Colchester is explicitly mentioned in "written" accounts is an entry for 917 AD in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, when it is recorded that King Edward the Elder led a Saxon army from Surrey,