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"We told you about London's oldest restaurants, so now we're giving you the scoop on the city's oldest pubs too, because that's how life works. And as it turns out, some of the capital's drinking holes are astoundingly old, and actually predate some remarkable things. So without further ado, here's what your local is older than...\nThe Spaniards Inn\nHampstead\nFounded: 1585\nWhat is it older than? Newspapers\nThat's right, for the first few years it was open, The Spaniards' customers were left reading the backs of beermats because the newspaper&amp;nbsp;(at least the first one intended for the general public)&amp;nbsp;would not be invented until&amp;nbsp;1605 in Germany.&amp;nbsp;London wouldn't get one for another century. The pub itself is name-dropped in Dracula though, so there was a little literature to chew on."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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