Pubs in Camden

Story pubs in Camden

49 pubs here carry a heritage note or a passed-down story. Each offers a reason to detour beyond price.

• The Sir Richard Steele
• The Boot
• Camden Head
• The Flask
• The Queens Head
• The Dublin Castle
• The Old Nick
• The Queens Head
• Museum Tavern
• Plough
• Rising Sun
• Two Brewers
• Royal George (Euston)
• The Washington
• Crown (Covent Garden)
• The Perseverance
• The Assembly House
• The Duke
• The Seven Stars
• Crown & Anchor
• The Lamb
• The Rocket
• The Edinboro Castle
• Wheatsheaf
• Chalk Farm Tavern
• Cittie of Yorke
• Fitzroy Tavern
• George and Dragon, Fitzrovia
• Greene Man
• Holly Bush
• Old Red Lion, Holborn
• Old White Bear
• Prince of Wales, Euston
• Princess Louise
• Ship Tavern, London
• Spread Eagle Public House
• Staple Inn
• The Black Cap
• The Duke of Hamilton
• The Falcon, Camden
• The Flask, Highgate
• The Gatehouse, Highgate
• The Magdala
• The Old Bull and Bush
• The Pineapple
• Upper Flask
• Wells Tavern
• Ye Old Mitre
• Ye Olde Mitre

Crawls through Camden

A listed route with at least one stop here. Plan it from its first stop to its last.

• Victorian Soho

  Five Dean Street–era snugs the old Soho hands drank in. Pass the round on to whoever's next.

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• Fleet Street & the Writers

  The old press strip, Strand to Fleet Street, where a generation of hacks filed copy, then drank it back.

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• Bloomsbury Literary

  From the Museum Tavern down Lamb's Conduit Street, the reading-room-and-a-pint round handed down since the British Museum days.

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• Camden Market crawl

  From the lock down Camden High Street, market stalls, canal views, and the pubs that have watched Camden's music scene since punk.

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• Soho small plates

  A kitchen-first loop through Dean Street's food pubs. Proper plates between the pints, so nobody drinks on an empty stomach.

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• Barbican coding pint

  A Barbican-to-Old-Street loop through the City fringe, the after-work standup pint between the Square Mile studios and Silicon Roundabout.

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• Leicester Square soft round

  A cocktail-bar loop off Leicester Square. Every stop mixes drinks, so it's an easy one to run alcohol-free: order the mocktail version of the round.

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• Historic pubs (Eating Europe guide)

  Seven stops from Eating Europe's London pubs guide. Heritage notes and stories only, never prices. A city-wide greatest-hits loop, not one tight walk.

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• Young's beer gardens

  Garden pubs from Young's own regional guides that match our London map. Official microsite links, beer-garden story, no invented prices.

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• Nicholson's West End

  A walkable Mayfair–Soho–Strand loop through Nicholson's historic pubs. Official menu and book links, no invented prices.

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Historic pubs in Camden

47 notable pubs on record. The oldest is The Seven Stars (17th century) · 6 listed.

Cited from Wikipedia.

• 17th centuryGrade II

  The Seven Stars

  The Seven Stars is a Grade II listed pub at 53 Carey Street behind the Royal Courts of Justice; with 17th-century origins (its frontage bears the date 1602), it is one of the few City-fringe pubs to have survived the Great Fire of London.Show moreShow less
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• 18th centuryGrade II

  The Perseverance

  The Perseverance at 63 Lamb's Conduit Street, Bloomsbury, is a Grade II listed building of early-18th-century origin, refronted in the early 19th century; it traded for years as The Sun before taking its current name.Show moreShow less
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• 18th century

  Upper Flask

  18th-century tavern in HampsteadShow moreShow less
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• 1850Grade II

  The Rugby Tavern

  The Rugby Tavern on the corner of Great James Street and Rugby Street, Bloomsbury, is a Grade II listed pub dating from about 1850, built on land that forms part of the Rugby (School) Estate.Show moreShow less
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• 1855Grade II

  Museum Tavern

  The Museum Tavern is a Grade II listed pub at 49 Great Russell Street, opposite the British Museum; the present building was rebuilt around 1855-64 by William Finch Hill, and Karl Marx is traditionally said to have drunk here while working in the nearby Reading Room.Show moreShow less
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• 1915

  The Dolphin Tavern

  The Dolphin Tavern at 44 Red Lion Street, Holborn, was badly damaged by a Zeppelin raid on 8 September 1915; the pub's clock, recovered from the rubble, is preserved stopped at 10.40pm, the moment of the blast.Show moreShow less
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