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| Fiddle Inn |
There are numerous theories about the source of the nursery rhyme about the cat and the fiddle. Whatever the source, we do know that as far back as the year 1085 there was an English inn named the Cat and the Fiddle.
Keep in mind that the Middle Ages most people were illiterate, so if you ran an inn or a tavern you had to make it identifiable by a visual clue, such as a picture of a cat with a fiddle. Apparently there were Cat and Fiddle Inns scattered across England (not part of a chain), perhaps because people simply expected (for whatever reason) an inn to be called Cat and Fiddle.
