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    City'S Historic Pubs: Adventures Close To Home

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    The document describes 5 historic pubs in London's City area: 1) Jamaica Wine House, built on the site of London's first coffee house, with a famous bar downstairs. 2) The Globe pub located near Moorgate station, with an elegant exterior built along the line of a Roman wall. 3) Cittie of Yorke pub built in a medieval style with interior inspired by its original 1430 design. Welsh poet Dylan Thomas once wrote an ode about it. 4) Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese pub frequented by many literary figures and said to be the first building rebuilt after the Great Fire of London. 5) Ye Olde Watling pub rebuilt

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    The document describes 5 historic pubs in London's City area: 1) Jamaica Wine House, built on the site of London's first coffee house, with a famous bar downstairs. 2) The Globe pub located near Moorgate station, with an elegant exterior built along the line of a Roman wall. 3) Cittie of Yorke pub built in a medieval style with interior inspired by its original 1430 design. Welsh poet Dylan Thomas once wrote an ode about it. 4) Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese pub frequented by many literary figures and said to be the first building rebuilt after the Great Fire of London. 5) Ye Olde Watling pub rebuilt

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    The document describes 5 historic pubs in London's City area: 1) Jamaica Wine House, built on the site of London's first coffee house, with a famous bar downstairs. 2) The Globe pub located near Moorgate station, with an elegant exterior built along the line of a Roman wall. 3) Cittie of Yorke pub built in a medieval style with interior inspired by its original 1430 design. Welsh poet Dylan Thomas once wrote an ode about it. 4) Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese pub frequented by many literary figures and said to be the first building rebuilt after the Great Fire of London. 5) Ye Olde Watling pub rebuilt

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    Adventures Close to Home:

    CITY’S HISTORIC PUBS

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    Adventures Close to Home:
    CITY’S HISTORIC PUBS
    C B

    D
    E A

    A Jamaica Wine House D Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese


    B The Globe E Ye Old Watling
    C Cittie of Yorke

    Walk up a thirst. Discover history.


    The City of London contains hundreds of licensed premises,
    catering for all tastes. Among these are the English public houses
    (pubs), which have been at the heart of London’s life, culture and
    literature for many centuries.

    They have been places of inspiration for London’s famous figures,


    including authors like Chaucer, Shakespeare and Dickens. The
    pubs have survived fires, wars and modernisation. This route takes
    you to some of the oldest and most atmospheric pubs that can
    be found in and around the City of London.
    A. Jamaica Wine House B. The Globe
    The Jamaica Wine House is almost impossible The Globe is conveniently located a short
    to find, unless you already know where it is! stroll from Moorgate and Liverpool Street
    It was built on the site of London’s first coffee Underground Stations and the Barbican Centre.
    house in the churchyard of a Dickensian With its elegant rococo exterior, the pub runs
    church. This is an atmospheric “must-see”, along the line of a Roman Wall. It’s situated close
    with the famous Todd’s Wine Bar being nested to the original site of notorious Bedlam (Bethlem)
    downstairs. and the famous poet, John Keats, was also born
    St. Michaels Alley, Cornhill, EC3V 9DS in a stable next door.

    Nearest station: Bank, Monument 83 Moorgate, EC2M 6SA


    Nearest station: St Paul’s Station and City
    Thameslink

    C. Cittie of Yorke D. Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese


    In the heart of London’s legal quarter, the This rambling, twisting 17th century hulk has
    historic Cittie of Yorke is a curious place played host to nearly every literary figure
    of interest. With its inspiring, medieval- in London, including Charles Dickens, G.K.
    style interiors, built in Victorian times as a Chesterton and Mark Twain, not all at the
    reconstruction of the pub’s original 1430 same time, though. Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese
    design, the space ought to impose and is a London institution.
    intimidate. The Welsh poet Dylan Thomas 145 Fleet Street, EC4A 2BU
    penned an impromptu ode to the pub when it
    Nearest station: Blackfriars
    was called Henneky’s Long Bar.
    22 High Holborn, Holborn, London WC1V 6BN
    Nearest station: Chancery Lane

    E. Ye Old Watling DID YOU KNOW...?


    Basking in the shade of St Paul’s Cathedral, Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese was the first new
    Ye Olde Watling was rebuilt by Sir Christopher building to be built following the Great Fire of
    Wren in 1668 to house his workers and, most London, which destroyed most of the City in
    importantly, provide somewhere for them to 1666. In the years since, the pub acquired a
    drink. The plans for St Paul’s Cathedral were strong literary legacy, attracting Oscar Wilde,
    drawn up in what is now the dining room. W.B. Yeats, Dr Johnson, Charles Dickens and
    29 Watling St, London EC4M 9BR Mark Twain. The pub was home to Polly the
    Parrot, who was often heard swearing at the
    Nearest station: St Paul’s
    customers. Following her death in 1926,
    obituaries were written about the famous Polly
    in around 200 newspapers across the world!

    Cycling information Other places of interest


    Cycle parking is available at the many on-street The Royal Exchange was formally established in 1566
    cycle parking racks throughout the City. The City by an English financier and merchant, Thomas
    of London Corporation also provides free cycle Gresham. This building was a place for business
    parking in its off-street public car parks. Explore trade and the arrangement of credits and loans,
    this interactive map to find cycle parking. between merchants. Today, this grand building is
    a hub for high-end shopping and dining.
    St Paul’s Cathedral is one of the nation’s most loved
    cathedrals and an icon of the City.

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