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White Hart

(formerly Olde White Hart)

191 Drury Lane
Covent Garden
London
WC2B 5QD

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Social Links

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Follow @whitehartdrury on Twitter

Opening Times

Monday	11.00 am - Midnight
Tuesday	11.00 am - Midnight
Wednesday	11.00 am - Midnight
Thursday	11.00 am - Midnight
Friday	11.00 am - 2.00 am
Saturday	Midday - 2.00 am
Sunday	closed

Meal Times

12 - 8 Mon - Sat
12 - 5 Sun

About the Pub

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/

Regular cask ales

This pub serves 1 regular beer.

Sharp's Doom Bar

Changing cask ales

This pub serves 2 changing beers.

Changing beers typically include:

St Austell Tribute

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Features

Real Ale Available
Cask Marque Accredited

Facilities

Lunchtime Meals
Evening Meals
Events
DJ on Saturday nights.
Newspapers
Restaurant Area

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White Hart

191 Drury Lane
Covent Garden
London
WC2B 5QD

Sat Nav Reference

51.516127, -0.124118

Transport

Close to Bus Routes
Close to Railway Station
Close to London Underground / Overground / DLR

Nearby Bus Routes (200m)

8, 25, 55, 98

Nearby Station (900m)

London Charing Cross

Nearby London Underground/Overground/DLR (350m)

Holborn

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White Hart

(formerly Olde White Hart)

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