page_title: List of pubs in the United Kingdom
section_title: London
hierarchical_section_title: List of pubs in the United Kingdom / England / London
caption_attribution_description: English: Guinness Book of Records Certificate dated 1989 at The Dove, Hammersmith confirmed it to have the world's smallest public bar room.
context_page_description: The following is an incomplete list of notable public houses in the United Kingdom.
context_section_description: The Alchemist, Battersea, a pub built in the Victorian-era and originally called The Fishmongers Arms, which closed in 2013 and was demolished in May 2015 by a property developer without permission. The property developer was later asked to rebuild the pub brick-by-brick.
  The Angel, Islington. Formerly a coaching inn, the first on the route northwards out of London, where Thomas Paine is believed to have written much of The Rights of Man and was mentioned by Charles Dickens in Oliver Twist. It became a Lyons Corner House, and is now a Co-operative Bank. It is also on the board in the British version of the board game Monopoly. Close by is a modern Wetherspoon pub continuing the name The Angel.
  The Blind Beggar, Whitechapel. In March 1966, Richardson Gang associate George Cornell was shot and killed by gangster Ronnie Kray in the saloon bar. William Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army, preached his first sermon outside the pub in 1865.
  The Britannia is a Grade II-listed pub at 5 Brewers Lane, Richmond.
  The Bull's Head, also known as "The Bull", is a pub in Barnes, best known as a venue for live jazz.
  The Carlton Tavern in Kilburn, a building erected by Charrington & Co in the Vernacular Revival style in 1920, to replace an earlier pub on the same site which was destroyed by a Zeppelin bomb in 1918. The building was demolished without permission by a property company in April 2015, who were later ordered by Westminster City Council to rebuild it brick-by-brick.
  Crocker's Folly, Maida Vale. Huge ornate late Victorian pub, closed 2004 but reopened October 2014, said to have been built by Frank Crocker on this site in the expectation that the Great Central Railway terminus in London would be built opposite and not in Marylebone. Known as The Crown Hotel from its opening until 1987.
  De Hems, off Shaftesbury Avenue, is the primary Dutch pub in London; it takes its name from a Dutch seaman who purchased the pub in 1890. The Dutch resistance met here during the Second World War.
  Dirty Dick's, Bishopsgate. Established in 1745 and originally called The Old Jerusalem  it is named after ironmonger Nathaniel Bentley, who upon the death of his fiancee on the eve of their wedding, refused to clean, clear up anything or even wash. The pub was rebuilt from ground level in 1870.
  The Dove, Hammersmith, once the haunt of Ernest Hemingway and Graham Greene, it also claims the smallest bar in Britain (according to the Guinness Book of Records), though not the smallest pub. It also makes the disputed claim to be the oldest surviving Thames-side pub.
  The Drayton Court in Ealing. Built in 1893 as a hotel, it was converted to pub use in the 1940s. Former Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh worked in the kitchens in 1914.
  The Feathers, Linhope Street, Marylebone. A pub since 1899 it is claimed to be the smallest in London, with only three tables and a small bar. It changed name to The Swan & Edgar and closed in 2013.
  The Finborough Arms was built in 1868 to a design by George Godwin. It was one of five public houses built by Corbett and McClymont in the Earls Court district during the West London development boom of the 1860s. The upstairs room hosts a leading fringe theatre. Renowned plumber Thomas Crapper is a famous former patron.
  Fitzroy Tavern, Fitzrovia. Famous for being frequented by Virginia Woolf and others of the Bloomsbury Set. It also boasted Dylan Thomas, George Orwell and George Bernard Shaw as regulars.
  The George Inn, Southwark off Borough High Street is London's only remaining galleried coaching inn. Dating from the 17th century (the original building was destroyed by fire in 1676) it is famous for have been visited by Charles Dickens (it appears in the serial novel Little Dorrit) and William Shakespeare, although there is little evidence that the latter ever visited.
  The Grapes, Limehouse, on Narrow Street, Limehouse. Originally The Bunch of Grapes, this pub has stood for over 500 years and is immortalised as the Six Jolly Fellowship Porters in Charles Dickens' novel, Our Mutual Friend (though some commentators claim that Dickens a
caption: The Dove, Hammersmith, Guinness Book of Records 'Smallest Public Bar Room' Certificate (awarded in 1989)
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