Cock And Bottle, 30 Swadford Street - Skipton, UK
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dtrebilc
N 53° 57.608 W 002° 01.152
30U E 564351 N 5979531
This pub sign shows a large, colourful cockerel standing next to what looks like a bottle of red wine.
Waymark Code: WMWP4Q
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 09/25/2017
Views: 1
The Cock & Bottle is an old name for a pub and traditionally indicates that the pub sold both barrels of beer and bottled beer. The cock was the name of the spigot used to draw of beer from the barrel.
According to the pub's website the exact date the building first became a pub is unknown, but the first known owner of the building acquired it some time between 1689 and and 1703 and that the first written evidence of it being a pub is in 1731.
Name of Artist: Not listed
Date of current sign: Not listed
Date of first pub on site: Not listed
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