Pubs in Tower Hamlets

Story pubs in Tower Hamlets

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

• The Half Moon - JD Wetherspoon
• The Pride of Spitalfields
• Prospect of Whitby
• The Queens Head
• The Sun Tavern
• The White Hart
• The Grapes
• The Ship
• The Bell
• The George Tavern
• The Lord Tredegar
• The Blind Beggar
• Black Horse Public House
• Brown Bear
• Commercial Tavern
• Duke of Wellington
• Golden Heart
• Knave of Clubs
• Royal Oak
• Salmon and Ball
• Ten Bells
• The Gun
• The Owl & The Pussycat
• The Palm Tree
• Town of Ramsgate

Crawls through Tower Hamlets

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

• Riverside Heritage

  St Katharine Docks east to Limehouse, the Thames-side taverns watermen and their grandkids still drink in at the turn of the tide.

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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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Historic pubs in Tower Hamlets

25 notable pubs on record. The oldest is Prospect of Whitby (1520) · 3 listed.

Cited from Wikipedia.

• 1520Grade II*

  Prospect of Whitby

  The Prospect of Whitby is a Grade II* listed pub on Wapping Wall in the East End, reputed to be one of the oldest riverside taverns in London, dating from around 1520.Show moreShow less
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• 1583Grade II

  The Grapes

  The Grapes is a Grade II listed public house at 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, on the north bank of the Thames; a pub has stood on the site since 1583.Show moreShow less
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• 18th century

  The Dickens Inn

  The Dickens Inn at St Katharine Docks occupies an 18th-century timber-framed former warehouse; when the docks were redeveloped in the 1970s the structure was moved bodily to its present site and reopened as a three-storey balconied inn.Show moreShow less
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• 1701Grade II

  The Captain Kidd

  The Captain Kidd at 108 Wapping High Street is a Grade II listed riverside pub in a converted former warehouse, named after the pirate William Kidd, who was hanged at the nearby Execution Dock in 1701.Show moreShow less
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• 19th century

  The Pride of Spitalfields

  The Pride of Spitalfields at 3 Heneage Street, just off Brick Lane in the East End, is a mid-19th-century pub formerly known as the Romford Arms; it sits in the old Huguenot heartland of Spitalfields and was named CAMRA's East London Pub of the Year in 2013.Show moreShow less
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• Black Horse Public House

  pub in Tower Hamlets, London, England, UKShow moreShow less
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