Few pubs survive on beer alone, especially if they’re of substantial size, or out of the way. Adapt or die might be every successful publican’s motto. In Girton, a pretty but unattractively named village north of Cambridge, is the Old Crown. Rumours abound that it is the largest thatched pub in the country; the present building has been here since the 1930s, though a pub has been on the site since 1860.
