The inn next door has an even better name

Since it's Saturday (and therefore pub day) it seemed a good day to share with you some of my favourite pub names. I love the ones that are full of tradition and mystery. The Case is Altered in Harrow, for instance, has a faintly sinister ring to it. They say it's a corruption of La Casa Alta - Spanish for "tall house" - but surely not. Why call a sprawling pub a tall house, anyway? Then there are all those literary and historical pub names that have apparently been misinterpreted by generations of boozers. The Goat and Compasses is a corruption of "God encompasseth us"; The Bag o'nails was originally Bacchanals, and the Elephant and Castle was once the Infanta de Castile.

The Quiet Woman, York. The pub sign depicts a woman carrying her own severed head. That should shut anyone up.
Bull & Spectacles, Staffordshire. Used to be called the Bulls Head until some drunken wag climbed up and placed his reading glasses on the sign.
The Drunken Duck Lancashire. Named after an incident when the innkeeper's wife found her ducks lying in a drunken stupor after eating grain soaked in ale from a leaking barrel.
The Leg Of Mutton And Cauliflower, Surrey. Novel idea – naming the pub after the Sunday lunch menu
The Inn Next Door Burnt Down - Bedfordshire. Less of a pub name, more of a news flash.