The Eight Bells is a grade II listed public house in Park Street, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England.[1] The building has a timber frame from around the sixteenth century and a nineteenth-century front.
Literary associations
The pub has associations with the author Charles Dickens. Dickens is known to have stayed there in the 1830s, and it is believed to be the pub in Hatfield visited by his fictional character Bill Sikes.[2]
References
- ↑ Historic England. "The Eight Bells Public House (1296123)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
- ↑ "The Eight Bells". The Victorian Web.
External links
Media related to The Eight Bells, Hatfield, Hertfordshire at Wikimedia Commons
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