Why did this small village once have so many pubs?
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But while Duxford may have had just one butcher, one carter and one joiner, it had at least eight pubs or ale houses., has been pieced back together by Mike Priestley and the newly re-established Duxford History Society. "The thing that struck me straight away was the the thing that has struck most people - the number of pubs.
"Beer was a safer thing to drink because water was often contaminated out of the well so everybody drank beer," he said. "It was also part of the payment plan for the farm workers and kids who worked on the farms, they were paid in beer."The difference between an ale house and a pub is that the ale houses could only sell beer, while pubs could sell wines and spirits," he said.
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