London
A capital where the oldest wine bar in the city is also one of the easiest to walk straight past.
Gordon's Wine Bar has been pouring from the same candlelit cellar under Villiers Street since 1890, a five-minute walk from Trafalgar Square that most visitors never make. London rewards exactly that kind of detour — a street back, a level down — more than another lap of the same six postcodes everyone already knows.
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Cittie of Yorke
London, United KingdomA drinking house on this spot since about 1430, in a building from the 1920s — plus a Dylan Thomas poem that stayed lost for sixty years.
Gordon's Wine Bar
London, United KingdomLondon's oldest wine bar, poured from a candlelit cellar under Villiers Street since 1890.
Hoop and Grapes
London, United KingdomA leaning late-seventeenth-century timber house that Historic England calls a type once common in London and now very rare.
The Prospect of Whitby
London, United KingdomClaims 1520 and the title of oldest riverside tavern. The building is a 1777 rebuild, and the date seems to have been invented in the 1950s.
The George Inn
London, United KingdomThe closest thing to a straight answer on London's oldest pub: a 1677 rebuild on a site mapped in 1542, and the last galleried coaching inn in the city.
The Grapes
London, United KingdomOne room wide, with a veranda over the Thames, no straight floor, and a real claim to be the tavern Dickens wrote into Our Mutual Friend.
The Olde Wine Shades
London, United KingdomA 1663 merchant's house with a bricked-up river tunnel in the wall and the City's strongest claim to have outlived the Great Fire.
The Seven Stars
London, United KingdomThe frontage says 1602. The building is more like the 1680s — and the gap between those two numbers is the whole story of old London pubs.
The Spaniards Inn
London, United KingdomA sixteenth-century inn on the edge of Hampstead Heath, with a surviving toll house opposite that still pinches the road to a single lane.
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese
London, United KingdomRebuilt in 1667, the year after the Great Fire, and the birthplace of London's most durable invented pub legend.
Ye Olde Mitre
London, United KingdomFounded in 1546 for a bishop's servants, housed in a building from about 1773, down an alley that was legally part of Cambridgeshire.
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Gordon's Wine Bar
London, United KingdomLondon's oldest wine bar, poured from a candlelit cellar under Villiers Street since 1890.
Hoop and Grapes
London, United KingdomA leaning late-seventeenth-century timber house that Historic England calls a type once common in London and now very rare.
The Prospect of Whitby
London, United KingdomClaims 1520 and the title of oldest riverside tavern. The building is a 1777 rebuild, and the date seems to have been invented in the 1950s.
The George Inn
London, United KingdomThe closest thing to a straight answer on London's oldest pub: a 1677 rebuild on a site mapped in 1542, and the last galleried coaching inn in the city.
The Roman Baths
Bath, United KingdomTwo thousand years of hot springs in the heart of the city named after them, green Roman water beneath Georgian stone.
The Seven Stars
London, United KingdomThe frontage says 1602. The building is more like the 1680s — and the gap between those two numbers is the whole story of old London pubs.