The Roya Oak on the Shambles

I hadn't realised that there was a Shambles in Chesterfield. This pub was built in the 12th century. This is the oldest Inn in Chesterfield and one of the oldest in England.

It was formally a rest house for ?The Knights Templar? in the years of ?The Holy Crusades?. Then through and after the medieval period it was used as two butchers shops and Inn accommodation. The earliest discovered records show it already being an Inn in 1722 A.D.