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Why so many pubs are called the White Hart: a king's badge on the inn signWhere the White Hart pub name comes from: the personal badge of Richard II, the Wilton Diptych, the 1393 law that made alehouses hang out a sign, and how heraldry filled Britain's high streets with lions, boars and harts.- Straight from the cask: how real ale gets from the pub cellar to your glassWhat happens to a cask of real ale between the brewery and the bar: secondary fermentation, finings, venting with spiles, settling, cellar temperature and the handpump.
Llantwit Major in a day: St Illtud's Church, the old square and the Heritage CoastA walking day in Llantwit Major: the Grade I listed church of St Illtud, the 15th-century Town Hall and the cliffs and fossils of Col-huw on the Glamorgan Heritage Coast.
What the Cask Marque plaque on a pub door actually meansCask Marque is the independent scheme that checks cask ale quality in pubs: unannounced visits, four tests on every beer and a cellar audit. Here is how it works.