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A Thames tavern with a flagstone floor four hundred years old and a noose hanging over the water.
Historic interiorOn the river
The pub dates itself to 1520 and calls itself the oldest riverside tavern in the country, which is a narrower claim than the ones six pubs make about being the oldest in London and a good deal easier to believe. What is certainly old is the floor: four hundred years of flagstones, worn into dips, which the pub is right to make a fuss of.
It stands on Wapping Wall with the water at the back, and the terrace and the upstairs both look straight out at it. The noose strung from a beam over the foreshore is a nod to Execution Dock, where pirates were hanged and left for three tides to wash over them - which happened a few hundred yards from here rather than at the pub, but the association is old and the pub has never been shy about it.
Pepys and Turner are both claimed as drinkers. Roasts on a Sunday, a beer garden, and dogs welcome.
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