Cat and Fiddle Inn

Cat and Fiddle Inn
viewed from the south
Restaurant information
Food type	Public house
County	Cheshire
Country	England

Coordinates: 53°14′32.78″N 1°59′48.51″W / 53.2424389°N 1.9968083°W / 53.2424389; -1.9968083

The Cat and Fiddle Inn is the second-highest inn or public house in England (the Tan Hill Inn being the highest). The inn is situated on the eastern fringes of Cheshire in the Peak District National Park on the A537 road just west of the Derbyshire/Cheshire county boundary, on the western side of Axe Edge Moor. It is at an elevation of 1,689 feet (515 m) above sea level (although a measurement commissioned by a former landlord suggested a figure of 1,772 feet (540 m), which would surpass that of the Tan Hill Inn). The Ordnance Survey have fixed an accurately measured flush-bracket benchmark to the front wall of the pub. The height of this flush bracket is 515.1984 metres (1,690 ft 3.40 in), and the flush bracket is 0.4 metres (16 in) above the ground level, which casts doubt over the validity of the private survey.

The inn is the last on the 45-mile (72 km) Four Inns Walk, held annually in spring, mainly over the high moorland to the north.

The pub was built in 1813. It closed in December 2015. As of April 2017^[update], its future as a public house is uncertain, Robinsons Brewery stating in 2016 that it was "closed until further notice". In September 2016 a local newspaper reported that it would reopen, but no date was subsequently announced.