![]() I retreated back to my one-legged scarecrow, unsure of what to do next. I turned my head in slow motion to look for my shoe over my right shoulder, which made my standing leg and arms flail like an inflatable tube man. Learn more about cycling in the City Other places of interestįind out more about other places to eat and drink in the City of London on our website and download the In the City app for exclusive deals and great offers from bars and eateries in the Square Mile.I was balancing on one leg, arms outstretched like a scarecrow. Explore this interactive map to find cycle parking. More cycle parking spaces are available in NCP car parks. The City of London Corporation provides free cycle parking in its off-street public car parks. If you'd like to explore this route by bike, note that cycle parking is available at the many on-street cycle parking racks throughout the City. It’s a great big rambling building, located interestingly between the barber shop owned by Sweeney Todd and the pie shop owned by Mrs Lovett. The Old Bank of England has some of the most sumptuous pub interiors in London, converted from the Law Courts branch of the Bank of England. ![]() The Old Bank of England - 194 Fleet Street, EC4A 2LT The plans for St Paul’s Cathedral were drawn up in what is now the dining room. Stop E: Ye Old Watling - 29 Watling St, London EC4M 9BRBasking in the shade of St Paul’s Cathedral, Ye Olde Watling was rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren in 1668 to house his workers and, most importantly, provide somewhere for them to drink. Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese is a London institution. Chesterton and Mark Twain Not all at the same time, though. This rambling, twisting 17th century hulk has played host to nearly every literary figure in London, including Charles Dickens, G.K. Stop D: Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese - 145 Fleet Street, EC4A 2BU Welsh poet Dylan Thomas penned an impromptu ode to the pub when it was called Henneky's Long Bar. With its inspiring, medieval-style interiors and with a Tudor disregard for spelling, it was built in Victorian times as a reconstruction of the pub’s original 1430 design. In the heart of London’s legal quarter, the historic Cittie of Yorke is a curious place of interest. Stop C: Cittie of Yorke - 22 High Holborn, Holborn, London WC1V 6BN the pub was originally licensed to the Bishop of Ely in Cambridgeshire and used to be guarded by his frock-coated official. Often described as the hardest pub to find in London, Ye Olde Mitre is located through a narrow passageway, off Hatton Garden. Queen Elizabeth I is said to have once danced around a cherry tree in its back garden and. ![]() Ye Olde Mitre - 1 Ely Court, Ely Place, EC1N 6SJ It’s situated close to the original site of notorious Bedlam (Bethlem) and the famous poet, John Keats, was also born in a stable next door. With its elegant rococo exterior, the pub runs along the line of a Roman Wall. The Globe is conveniently located a short stroll from Moorgate and Liverpool Street Underground Stations and the Barbican Centre. Stop B: The Globe - 83 Moorgate, EC2M 6SA ![]() The Jamaica Wine House is almost impossible to find, unless you already know where it is! It was built on the site of London’s first coffee house in the churchyard of a Dickensian church and, although it has historic links with the sugar trade and slave plantations of the West Indies, this is an atmospheric "must-see", with the famous Todd’s Wine Bar nested downstairs. ![]()
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