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Photo date: May 2013. (Pub, External, Key). Published on 05-08-2013

White Hart, London

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191 Drury Lane, London, WC2B 5QD (Directions)
(020) 7242 2317
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A pub that is much larger than it looks from the outside. There is a narrow bar leading to a large baronial rear area. Rebuilt in 1912 by Hoare and Company's Red Lion Brewery, the pub claims from Old Bailey archives to have been in existence since 1216 and to be the oldest licensed premises in London. It, and the surrounding Drury Lane area, was a plague hotspot in the Great Plague of 1665.

Reputed, like many others in the area, to be a pub where condemned men had their last drink and the company of a good (bad) woman; it is on record that the highwayman Jack Sheppard had his last glass here. The White Hart was a favourite emblem of Richard II though the origins of the creature date at least from Alexander the Great's time. Archive photos of this pub as a Charrington's Ales house may be seen at http://www.historypin.org/en/white-hart/

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Previous Names
Olde White Hart
Premises Comment
Operator
Morton-Scott Pub Company
Local Authority
Camden
Last updated
25/08/2022
Last surveyed
21/04/2016
Pub ID
WLD/16673
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Opening
Food
Monday
Noon-23:00
Noon-20:00
Tuesday
Noon-23:00
Noon-20:00
Wednesday
Noon-23:00
Noon-20:00
Thursday
Noon-Midnight
Noon-20:00
Friday
Noon-02:00
Noon-20:00
Saturday
Noon-02:00
Noon-20:00
Sunday
Noon-20:00
Noon-17:00
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Transport
Close to bus routes (200m)
8, 25, 55, 98
Nearby Station (900m)
London Charing Cross
Close to London Underground/Overground/DLR (350m)
Holborn
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