THE OLDEST INN.
American visitors who are searching for old English inns might do worse (says the Daily Chronicle) than take a run down to Liphook, Hants., and peep in at the old Royal Anchor. Like several other inns in various parts of the country the Royal Anchor is the oldest inn in England! "Which really is the oldest of all oldest inns in this fair land of ours it would he difficult to say, but the Anchor at Liphook claims to :.ave held fast for something like 600 years, and that's going back some. Monarchs of England have been dropping in there, 'tis said, since 1307. Samuel Pepys found anchorage at the inn, and mentions it in his diary., and Lord Nelson had breakfast there on the day he set sail on his last journey. Add to these the romantic shades of highwaymen and smugglers and dashing cavaliers who hid from Cromwell's men in the secret cupboards of the Royal Anchor, and what more could the most exacting American tourist desire?
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1419, 23 October 1923, Page 7
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172THE OLDEST INN. Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1419, 23 October 1923, Page 7
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