A CENTURIES-OLD York pub name is to be resurrected, 90 years after it was last used.

Leeds Brewery is set to name its new pub in High Petergate The Eagle and Child.

There was a pub of the same name in Shambles from the 1700s until 1925, and before that another of the same name in Pavement in the 16th century.

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The now-closed Plunkets restaurant in High Petergate, which is being turned into a pub by Leeds Brewery

The Pavement pub is mentioned in York's civic records, as the body of Robert Aske was taken there following his execution and decapitation, after the Pilgrimage of Grace uprising against Henry VIII.

The pub name is originally based on the heraldic crest of the Stanleys, a noble family in Derbyshire, and relates to a legend that claims an illegitimate baby son was found below a tree in which an eagle was nesting.

The reuse of the Eagle and Child name follows a similar revival for The Pavement Vaults. The original, in Pavement, closed in 1963 but the name is to be used on the new smokehouse restaurant and bar in Piccadilly, in the old White Swan Hotel building.