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White Hart, London

Operator: Morton-Scott Pub Company
191 Drury Lane, Covent Garden, London, WC2B 5QD (View on Google Map)

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/

Information for this venue is provided by the North London Branch of CAMRA
Previous Names
Olde White Hart
Local Authority
Camden
Last updated
25/08/2022
Last surveyed
21/04/2016
Pub ID
WLD/16673
Asset of Community Value
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Opening
Food
Monday
Noon - 11:00pm
Noon - 8:00pm
Tuesday
Noon - 11:00pm
Noon - 8:00pm
Wednesday
Noon - 11:00pm
Noon - 8:00pm
Thursday
Noon - Midnight
Noon - 8:00pm
Friday
Noon - 2:00am
Noon - 8:00pm
Saturday
Noon - 2:00am
Noon - 8:00pm
Sunday
Noon - 8:00pm
Noon - 5:00pm
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Facilities
Lunchtime Meals Lunchtime Meals
Evening Meals Evening Meals
Events Events
DJ on Saturday nights
Newspapers Newspapers
Restaurant Restaurant
Features
Real Ale Real Ale
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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