Pub Crawl

London Pub Crawl Walking Tour
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From the Fleet Street haunt of Dr Johnson to the Soho pub where de Gaulle is said to have written his call to arms, 29 pubs steeped in London's literary and screen history.

29 stops · Various London locations

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The George Inn

Dickens mentions the George in Little Dorrit, and today it is London's last surviving galleried coaching inn, cared for by the National Trust.

The Globe Tavern

Bridget Jones's flat in the 2001 film is above this Borough Market pub, and the fight between Daniel and Mark spills out right opposite.

The Anchor Bankside

Samuel Pepys watched the Great Fire from a little alehouse on this bank in 1666, and Tom Cruise relaxes here at the end of Mission: Impossible.

The Old Thameside Inn

This riverside pub sits on Clink Street, home of the medieval prison that gave us 'in the clink' and a favourite street of film-makers.

Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese

Dr Johnson, Tennyson, Mark Twain and Arthur Conan Doyle are all said to have drunk in this pub's warren of small dark bars, rebuilt just after the Great Fire.

The Princess Louise

Behind a plain front lies one of London's grandest Victorian pub interiors, its gilded mirrors from 1891 and its wooden partitions rebuilt in 2008.

The Seven Stars

This tiny pub's front bears the date 1602, and it claims to have survived the Great Fire of 1666, which stopped a few hundred metres away.

The Ship Tavern

Founded in 1549, this hidden Holborn tavern is said to have sheltered Catholic priests saying secret Mass behind its bar.

The Lamb and Flag

Poet John Dryden was ambushed and beaten by masked men in the alley beside this pub in 1679, allegedly over a satirical poem.

The Salisbury

This glittering Victorian pub in Theatreland starred in Victim (1961), the first English-language film to use the word "homosexual".

Mr Fogg's Tavern

This theatrical tavern is named for Phileas Fogg, who makes his famous eighty-day wager at the Reform Club, a short walk away on Pall Mall.

The Dog and Duck

George Orwell celebrated the success of Animal Farm in this tiny Soho corner pub, whose 1897 tiles and mirrors are still in place.

The Coach and Horses

Journalist Jeffrey Bernard drank himself into legend at this pub, a story told in the play Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell, which recreated the bar on stage.

The French House

General de Gaulle is said to have written his famous call to the French people in this tiny Soho pub, a home to the Free French during the war.

The Newman Arms

This tiny pub is believed to have inspired the 'prole pub' in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and the alley beside it opens the 1960 film Peeping Tom.

The Fitzroy Tavern

Fitzrovia is said to take its name from this pub, whose regulars from the 1920s to the 1950s included Dylan Thomas, George Orwell and Augustus John.

The Old Queen's Head

This pub's 400-year-old carved fireplace survived from the Tudor-era inn that once stood here, and legend links it to Sir Walter Raleigh.

The Bar with No Name

This tiny cocktail bar opened in 2009 with no name over the door, and its drinks are developed in a laboratory upstairs.

The Dublin Castle

Madness made their name on this tiny back-room stage in the late 1970s, and Blur, Coldplay and Amy Winehouse followed.

The World's End

Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright used to drink at this Camden pub, and when they wrote their pub-crawl film, its name became the title.

The Pineapple

When a developer tried to turn this Kentish Town local into flats, its regulars got it listed and saved it.

The Spaniards Inn

Dick Turpin is said to have stabled his horse here, and in The Pickwick Papers Mrs Bardell and her friends take tea in its gardens.

The Ten Bells

Annie Chapman and Mary Kelly, two victims of Jack the Ripper, are linked by tradition to this Spitalfields pub in the autumn of 1888.

The Blind Beggar

Ronnie Kray shot rival gangster George Cornell dead here in 1966, and the story goes that the jukebox was playing 'The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore'.

The Captain Kidd

This pub is named for William Kidd, hanged at nearby Execution Dock in 1701, though his body was left hanging in chains downriver at Tilbury.

The Grapes

Dickens drew on this Limehouse tavern for the Six Jolly Fellowship Porters in Our Mutual Friend, and today Sir Ian McKellen is one of its owners.

The Cross Keys

Built in 1708, Chelsea's oldest pub counts Agatha Christie, Dylan Thomas, Turner and Whistler among its past regulars.

The Old Ship

This riverside pub has stood on the Upper Mall since 1722, next door to William Morris's Kelmscott House.

The Prince's Head

This is the real pub behind Ted Lasso's Crown and Anchor, where Mae pulls the pints for AFC Richmond's fans.

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