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The George Inn

London's last galleried coaching inn, which Dickens knew and put into Little Dorrit.

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Photo by Ewan Munro from London, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Rebuilt in 1677 after a fire, the George is the one survivor of the galleried inns that lined Borough High Street, and the National Trust owns it. Dickens drank here and gave it a line in Little Dorrit, where Tip writes his begging letter from it; the Tabard, where Chaucer's pilgrims gathered, stood next door. Only the south range stands, one arm of what was a three-sided courtyard, and the wooden galleries above the yard are the last of their kind in London.

Where
75-77 Borough High Street, SE1 1NH
Nearest station
London Bridge · 2 min walk

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