Question: where did the term public house come from

title: Pub
text: The inhabitants of the British Isles have been drinking ale since the Bronze Age , but it was with the arrival of the Roman Empire on its shores in the 1st Century , and the construction of the Roman road networks that the first inns , called tabernae , in which travellers could obtain refreshment , began to appear . After the departure of Roman authority in the 5th Century and the fall of the Romano - British kingdoms , the Anglo - Saxons established alehouses that grew out of domestic dwellings . The Anglo - Saxon alewife would put a green bush up on a pole to let people know her brew was ready . These alehouses quickly evolved into meeting houses for the folk to socially congregate , gossip and arrange mutual help within their communities . Herein lies the origin of the modern public house , or `` pub '' as it is colloquially called in England . They rapidly spread across the kingdom , becoming so commonplace that in 965 King Edgar decreed that there should be no more than one alehouse per village . Ye 

Answer: answer: After the departure of Roman authority in the 5th Century and the fall of the Romano - British kingdoms , the Anglo - Saxons established alehouses that grew out of domestic dwellings . These alehouses quickly evolved into meeting houses for the folk to socially congregate , gossip and arrange mutual help within their communities . Herein lies the origin of the modern public house , or `` pub '' as it is colloquially called in England .