Country pub of the week: The Old Crown, Girton

Few pubs survive on beer alone, especially if they’re of substantial size, or out of the way. Adapt or die might be every successful publican’s motto. In Girton, a pretty but unattractively named village north of Cambridge, is the Old Crown. Rumours abound that it is the largest thatched pub in the country; the present building has been here since the 1930s, though a pub has been on the site since 1860.