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location:
address:
10 Stafford Street, W1S 4RX
phone:
020 7493 0337
nearest stations:
Green Park 
(230m) - zone 1
Piccadilly Circus
(520m) - zone 1
Oxford Circus
(710m) - zone 1
Bond Street
(830m) - zone 1
Leicester Square
(960m) - zone 1
how to find it:
On Leaving Green Park station, head towards Piccadilly (on the side opposite the park) and after a while you'll come to Dover Street (about the third or fourth road on your left, depending on where you left the station), walk up it and when you see the Duke of Albemarle pub, turn right down Stafford Street and you'll be at the pub.
click for directions to King's Head (ex-Shelley's) from wherever you areclick here for a larger map
nearby attraction(s):
The Royal Academy (110m)
Buckingham Palace (850m)
National Gallery (880m)
No longer sharing a name with an antiestablishment poet, the more regal King's Head is now a rebranded Nicholson's pub. Having seen off the Duke of Albemarle across the road - another Nicholson's pub that was closed down not long after this one opened up - the nearby Clarence is now also under the Nicholson's banner. At times, it can be hard to tell this one apart from the Clarence, as both of them stick rigidly to the Nicholson's branding. The King's Head offers a bit more space, though it's hard to see this one as much more than just another above average afterwork pub. It does the job, but it doesn't quite stir the emotions.
04/03/2006
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