An English pub that claims to be the oldest in Britain is closing due to financial problems worsened by the pandemic. Ye Olde Fighting Cocks in St. Albans, just north of London, has been in ...

Ye Olde Fighting Cocks in St. Albans, which has been open since 793 AD, is closing after a difficult past few years amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the pub's landlord announced on Facebook Friday.

Ye Olde Fighting Cocks in St. Albans, England, claims to be the oldest pub in Britain, with a storied past featuring medieval pigeons, Oliver Cromwell and a series of tunnels once traversed by monks.

Photo: Getty Images Ye Olde Fighting Cocks — which claims its origins in the 8th century, making it England’s oldest pub — may have pulled its last pint due to COVID-19. At least for now.

Famed British Pub Reopening After Employees Save 1,228-Year-Old Establishment Ye Olde Fighting Cocks, which first opened in St. Albans way back in 793 AD, will reopen its doors on April 4 ...

ALBANY — The Olde English Pub, a traditional British tavern in Quackenbush House, the city’s second-oldest building, has a new owner after 12½ years, bringing to a close one of the longer ...

An historic north-west London pub which a Tube station and the surrounding area was named after has called time after nearly two centuries in business. Campaigners are hoping Ye Olde Swiss Cottage ...

LONDON – The Ye Olde Fighting Cocks pub in St. Albans, England, has seen it all: Since its first brick was laid, possibly as early as 793, near the ruins of an ancient Roman city well before the ...