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location:
address:
145 Fleet Street, EC4A 2BU
phone:
0871 984 1568*
* calls cost 10p/minute, click here for more about 0871 numbers.
nearest stations:
City Thameslink 
(330m)
Blackfriars 
(400m) - zone 1
Chancery Lane
(510m) - zone 1
Temple
(590m) - zone 1
Farringdon
(680m) - zone 1
how to find it:
From Blackfriars: leave the tube and head up Blackfriars road (away from the river) towards Ludgate circus. Turn left into Fleet Street and the pub is a about 3 mins walk up Fleet Street, on your right. From Chancery lane: leave the tube and head east towards Holborn Circus. Turn right down Fetter lane before Holborn Circus and walk to the end. Continue down New Fetter lane to Fleet Street. Turn left into Fleet Street and the pub will be on your left a short distance in front of you. The entrance is the left hand passage way as you face the pub. If you use the other one you end up in Scruffy Murphy's.
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nearby attraction(s):
St. Paul's Cathedral (640m)
Sir John Soane's Museum (760m)
Museum of London (830m)
This pub is something of an institution on Fleet Street. In the heyday of the Street of Shame, you could regularly find the great and (occasionally) the good gathering here to do the business of Fleet Street. Sadly (for some) those years are now over, but the history of Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese actually goes back much further than recent decades. As the sign in the passageway attests, the pub was rebuilt just after the Great Fire of London and there's been a pub on this site for much longer than that. Since Fleet Street's dispersal eastwards, tourists are now the pub's main customers, but that comes as no surprise - the pub oozes character and history: nooks and crannies abound, there are numerous large and small rooms (some with fireplaces) at different levels, dark wood on wall and ceiling, flagstone floors and there's not a right angle in the place. The past clientele reads like a roll-call of literature - Dr. Johnson lived just around the corner, and scribes such as Voltaire, Dickens and Twain have all raised their drinking arms here. Sam Smith's excellent beers add their own touch of quirkiness to the offer, topped off with traditional pub grub. Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese neatly encapsulates the last few hundred years of London history in a single lunchtime - long may it last
24/01/2008
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private bar for hire
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