Editing Cockfighting (section)

=== United Kingdom ===
Cockfighting was banned outright in England and Wales and in the [[British Overseas Territories]] with the [[Cruelty to Animals Act 1835]]. Sixty years later, in 1895, cockfighting was also banned in Scotland, where it had been relatively common in the 18th century.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jKjYyGF8hSwC|title=Encyclopedia of Traditional British Rural Sports |author=Collins, T.|publisher=Routledge|access-date=December 5, 2007|year=2005 | isbn=978-0-415-35224-6}}</ref> A [[Hawk and Buckle Inn cockpit|reconstructed cockpit from Denbigh]] in North Wales may be found at [[St Fagans National History Museum]] in [[Cardiff]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/stfagans/buildings/cockpit/?display_mode=mobile|title=Cockpit|publisher=National Museum Wales|access-date=15 November 2013}}</ref> and a reference exists in 1774 to a cockpit at [[Stanecastle]] in Scotland.<ref name="McClure">{{cite book|author=McClure, David |year=1994|title=Tolls and Tacksmen|publisher=Ayr Arch & Nat Hist Soc. Ayrshire Monograph No. 13|page=53}}</ref> One of the few perfect examples of a cockpit which still exist today can be found on [[Chislehurst Common]], in southeast London.<ref>{{Cite web |title=A history of the Cockpit – Chislehurst Commons |url=https://chislehurstcommons.uk/news/a-history-of-the-cockpit/ |access-date=2024-04-04 |language=en-GB}}</ref>

According to a 2017 report by the [[RSPCA]], cockfighting in England and Wales was at a five-year high.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/841243/cockfighting-UK-popular-Pakistani-community-RSPCA-illegal-fights|website= www.express.co.uk|title= Cockfighting|date= 15 August 2017|accessdate= 3 September 2021}}</ref>