Historic pubs · London
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese
Fleet Street's 1667 sawdust-floor pub — Johnson, Dickens, Twain all drank here.
PAUL FARMER — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese on Wine Office Court, Fleet Street, was rebuilt in 1667 after the Great Fire and has barely changed since. Sawdust on the floor, low oak-beam ceilings, multiple intimate rooms. Samuel Johnson, Dickens, Twain and W.B. Yeats all drank here; the parrot Polly that died in 1926 was given a Times obituary.
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From the Wikipedia article
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese is a Grade II listed public house at 145 Fleet Street, on Wine Office Court, City of London. Rebuilt shortly after the Great Fire of 1666, the pub is known for its literary associations, with its regular patrons having included Charles Dickens, G. K. Chesterton and Mark Twain. The pub is on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
- Coordinates
- 51.5147, -0.1064
- Address
- 145 Fleet Street
- Phone
- +44 20 7353 3745
- Official site
- www.drjohnsonshouse.org
Sources
- manual: ye-olde-cheshire-cheese (manual)
- wikipedia: Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese?
- Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese is in London, United Kingdom.
- When was Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese built?
- Dates from the Tudor or Stuart period.
- Who owns Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese?
- Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese is owned by | current_tenants =.
- Is Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese a listed building?
- Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese is officially recognised as Grade II listed.