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location:
address:
139 Highgate Road, NW5 1LE
phone:
N/A
nearest stations:
Gospel Oak 
(360m)
Tufnell Park 
(600m) - zone 2
Kentish Town
(730m) - zone 2
Kentish Town West 
(1Km)
Archway
(1.2Km) - zones 2/3
how to find it:
From Gospel Oak station: turn left and walk to the end of the road. Then turn right down Highgate Road. From Kentish Town station: Turn right on leaving the station, cross over and keep walking as you pass the Forum. The pub is another few minutes on your left.
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nearby attraction(s):
The Forum (510m)
There's an argument to make that the Southampton Arms offers a more traditional pub experience than its neighbouring Kentish Town bars; that it's a boozer from the old school, a million miles from gastropubland. Actually visit this one though and you'll find an unfriendly and insular little spot; a despairing little boozer that'll suck the life out of you. It shouldn't necessarily be that way: a dartboard at the back of the pub and drawings on the wall of boxing and racing legends (Mike Tyson and Lester Piggott being the most favoured) suggest a pub of sports fans and banter, but neither were much in evidence on our visit. Uncivil bar staff and a musty air may be ideal for died-in-the-wool regulars, but passers by and seekers of a half decent pub in NW5 will do better to look elsewhere.
24/08/2007
Sky TV
outdoor seating
darts
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