Editing Pub (section)

===Origins===
[[File:Joseph Rowntree, Public Houses in Central London, 1899, Cornell, CUL PJM 1134 01.jpg|thumb|1899 map showing number of public houses in a district of central London]]

[[Ale]] was a native British drink before the arrival of the [[Roman Empire]] in the first century, but it was with the construction of the [[Roman road]] network that the first pubs, called ''[[taberna]]e'' (the origin of modern English "[[tavern]]"), began to appear.<ref name="Great British Pub">{{cite web | url = http://www.historic-uk.com/cultureUk/greatBritishpub.htm | title = Great British Pub| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120214164923/http://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/GreatBritishPub.htm | archive-date = 14 February 2012}}</ref>

After the departure of Roman authority in the fifth century and the fall of the [[Sub-Roman Britain|Romano-British kingdoms]], the [[Anglo-Saxons]] established alehouses that may have grown out of domestic dwellings, first attested in the 10th century. These alehouses quickly evolved into meeting houses for folk to socially congregate, gossip and arrange mutual help within their communities. The [[Wantage Code|Wantage law code]] of [[Æthelred the Unready]] prescribes fines for breaching the peace at meetings held in alehouses.<ref>{{cite book |date=1970 |title=Anglo Saxon England |url=https://archive.org/details/anglosaxonenglan0000sten |url-access=registration |isbn=9780198217169 |first=Frank |last=Stenton }}</ref>

[[File:Ye Olde Fighting Cocks (2).JPG|thumb|[[Ye Olde Fighting Cocks]] in [[St Albans]], Hertfordshire, which once held the [[Guinness World Record]] for the oldest pub in England]]

A traveller in the early [[Middle Ages]] could obtain overnight accommodation in monasteries, but later a demand for hostelries grew with the popularity of [[pilgrimage]]s and travel. The Hostellers of London were granted [[guild]] status in 1446, and in 1514 the guild became the [[Worshipful Company of Innholders]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.innholders.org.uk/about/company-history/ |title=Company History |publisher=Innholders Company |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220319083139/https://www.innholders.org.uk/about/company-history/ |archive-date=19 March 2022 |access-date=2 July 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> A survey in 1577 of drinking establishment in England and Wales for taxation purposes<ref>Monckton, Herbert Anthony (1966), [https://books.google.com/books?id=DOuzAAAAIAAJ&q=%221577%22+census+england ''A History of English Ale and Beer''], Bodley Head (p. 101)</ref> recorded 14,202 alehouses, 1,631 inns, and 329 taverns, representing one pub for every 187 people.<ref>{{cite book |title=Historical evolution of alcohol consumption in society |last1=Hanson |first1=David J |editor7-first=Jürgen |editor7-last=Rehm |editor6-first=Witold |editor6-last=Zatonski |editor5-first=Otis |editor5-last=Brawley |editor4-first=Harry |editor4-last=Burns |editor3-first=Albert B |editor3-last=Lowenfels |editor2-first=Paolo |editor2-last=Boffetta |editor1-first=Peter |editor1-last=Boyle |date=May 2013 |publisher=Oxford University Press Scholarship Online|doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199655786.001.0001 |isbn=9780199655786 }}</ref>