Old Cock Inn - High Street, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, UK.
N 51° 49.018 W 000° 21.439
30U E 682145 N 5743984
Pubs named 'The Cock' usually point at a pub that once offered cock fighting as an entertainment.
Waymark Code: WMC5NE
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 07/28/2011
Views: 2
Cock fighting would have taken place in the pub yard, as a rule. There may have been a cock pit offering the spectators a better view and (the fighting cocks) no escape.
As a pub name, 'The Cock' has been used since the 14th century.
As an alternative, the sign may have advertised the sale of cock ale and may have been around in this way since the 16th century. Here is the basic recipe:
"Take 10 gallons of ale and a large cock, the older the better; parboil the cock, flay him, and stamp him in a stone mortar until his bones are broken (you must gut him when you flaw him). Then, put the cock into two quarts of sack, and put to it five pounds of raisins of the sun - stoned; some blades of mace, and a few cloves. Put all these into a canvas bag, and a little before you find the ale has been working, put the bag and ale together in vessel.
In a week or nine days bottle it up, fill the bottle just above the neck and give it the same time to ripen as other ale."
Name of Artist: Not known.
Date of current sign: Not known.
Date of first pub on site: Not known.
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