There are many pubs across England with Cock in their name, and their origin stories are as equally diverse.
Many pubs adopted the name in reference to the heraldic charge that has featured on coats of arms since medieval times. A charge being any emblem or device occupying the field of an escutcheon (shield).
In some instances, pubs took their name from “cock ale”, a kind of beer popular in the 17th and 18th centuries. This ale was brewed using a boiled rooster and was thought to have aphrodisiac (!) properties.
Others derived their name from the sport of cockfighting, which was legal in Britain until the 19th century, but whatever the provenance, we know The Cock at Pavenham was a coaching inn for several hundred years before it was destroyed in a fire and rebuilt in 1937.
For our mini-makeover we have taken the design signature from the year the Cock was rebuilt, as we seek to bring a little late, Art Deco-period flair to our village ‘local’.
