AN OLD INN
Bound the same table at which Agincourt archers sat Sheffield hikers lately took refreshment in Crispin's Arms Ashover, the oldest inn in what is perhaps Derbyshire's oldest village. The decline of Ashover as a market centre was a serious thing for the inn once but now that the village is known as the centre of a Derbyshire beauty spot the hostelry recovers its lost gloried * every week-end. Trippers who throng [to it winter and summer learn, that tho inn was named because it was built in 1416 on the return of tho men of Ashover from the battle of Agincourt, 1 which was - fought -on St. Crispin's
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 32, 8 February 1933, Page 9
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110AN OLD INN Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 32, 8 February 1933, Page 9
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