The Eight Bells is a grade II listed

public house A pub (short for public house) is a kind of drinking establishment which is licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises. The term ''public house'' first appeared in the United Kingdom in late 17th century, and wa ...

in Park Street, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England. The building has a

timber frame Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden ...

from around the sixteenth century and a nineteenth-century front.

Literary associations

The pub has associations with the author

Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian e ...

. Dickens is known to have stayed there in the 1830s, and it is believed to be the pub in Hatfield visited by his fictional character Bill Sikes.

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Pubs in Welwyn Hatfield (district) Grade II listed pubs in Hertfordshire Hatfield, Hertfordshire Timber framed pubs in Hertfordshire {{pub-stub