Ye Olde Fighting Cocks appears in the Guinness Book of Records as England's oldest pub, in which town or city is it?
Ye Olde Fighting Cocks Ye Olde Fighting Cocks Ye Olde Fighting Cocks is a public house in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England. It is one of several pubs that lay claim to being the oldest in England. The building is described by Historic England as being of sixteenth century appearance, but as the earliest date for which it can be proved to have been licensed is 1756 - and even that date is not certain - its claim to this record is somewhat uncertain. Others such as the Ye Olde Man & Scythe in Bolton, Greater Manchester and Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem in Nottingham
Ye Olde Fighting Cocks is known by locals as 'The Fighters' or 'The Cocks'. in 1950 the building was listed. In 2015 PETA wrote to the pub's landlord and its owners, Mitchells & Butlers, requesting that they change the name due to its cockfighting association. The request was declined. The Cocks was featured in an exterior scene in "The Sins of the Fathers", a 1990 episode of the ITV series "Inspector Morse". The setting was the beer garden along the River Ver, with the pub's large sign plainly visible in the background. Ye Olde Fighting Cocks Ye Olde Fighting Cocks is a public house