Inns [ Residences & Lodgings ]
… The inn, much older than the comparatively young coffee-house , was one of several types of eating and drinking venue. Chaucer's medieval Tabard, offering food and accommodation for pilgrims 2 , is the British literary Ur-inn , but alehouses and taverns were also hospitable venues with historic roots, albeit less well documented. The alehouse was a ‘place of popular drinking’ 3 , frequented by … was not their main purpose. Due to regional differences and economic ups and downs, it can be difficult to define these venues against one another, particularly as the nomenclature could change over time. In the late eighteenth century, for …
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