Stratford-Upon-Avon. The date of the current building is considered to be 1596, although parts of the building date back to the 14th century (much of the earlier building burnt down in a series of town fires in 1594 and 1595). It is considered to be one of the oldest buildings in town. The earliest known tenant was John Pebworth, who was a barber here from 1446 to 1452. It became an Inn in 1718 and was called the Greyhound and then the Reindeer before being changed to the Garrick Inn in 1795, after the actor David Garrick who did much for the town's tourism trade by his encouragement of enthusiasm for Shakespeare. A fire in 1491 in the original inn trapped a young boy, and it is said the he and a young woman by the name of Alice Corbet haunt the pub to this day. And it is thought that a bout of the plague may have started at the original inn in 1564 when a weaver's apprentice, Oliver Gunn, died of the disease there. Inside the pub are a series of small rooms serviced by a tiny bar. Of course there are lots of the old dark wooden beams that I always love to see in these old pubs. I believe the Garrick Shakespeare Bitter (how could I have anything else?) is another beer made by the Greene King Brewery (they seem to have monopolized the market in Stratford!).