The Nutshell

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The Nutshell is a pub in Bury St Edmunds,Suffolk, England, thought to be the smallest pub in Britain, although this claim is challenged by several others, including the Smiths Arms at Godmanstone. Whatever the truth of its claim, the pub is certainly diminutive, there being very little room for more than ten or fifteen customers to drink at any one time. The pub measures 15ft by 7ft ^[1]. In 1984, a record number of 102 people squeezed into the pub ^[2].

Inside the pub is suspended the dried body of a black cat, discovered during building work. Builders used to brick cats up behind chimney hearths, where they died of starvation and heat.