Former public house in Southwark, London
Back of White Hart Inn, Southwark by
Philip Norman.
The White Hart Inn was a
coaching inn located on
Borough High Street in
Southwark.
[1] The inn is first recorded in 1406 but likely dates back to the late
fourteenth century as the
White Hart was the symbol of
Richard II.
[2] At the time Southwark was separate from the
City of London north of the
River Thames. In 1450 the inn was the headquarters of
Jack Cade's Rebellion. The earlier inn was destroyed in the Great Fire of Southwark in 1676, but was rebuilt. It was located close to other coaching inns including
The Tabard and
The George Inn, and like the George had a galleried structure.
[3] It was demolished in 1889.
[4] A separate pub of the same name, its building still dating from the
Victorian era, opened some distance to the west on
Great Suffolk Street in 1882.
It appears in
William Shakespeare's 1591 play
Henry IV, Part 2, which concerns Cade's rebellion. In the 1836 novel
Pickwick Papers by
Charles Dickens, the White Hart is where
Samuel Pickwick encounters
Samuel Weller and employs him as his
manservant.
[5] The inn's name survives in the street White Hart Yard, its former courtyard.
[6]
References
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^ Borer p.30
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^ Flude & Herbert p.190
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^ Muirhead p.IXIV
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^ Wheatley p.285
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^ Dailey & Tomedi p.77
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^ Flude & Herbert p.190
Bibliography
- Borer, Mary Cathcart . The British Hotel Through the Age. Lutterworth Press, 2021
- Dailey, Donna & Tomedi, John. London. Infobase Publishing, 2005.
- Flude, Kevin & Herbert, Paul . The Citisights Guide to London: Ten Walks Through London's Past. Virgin Books, 1990.
- Muirhead, Finlay. London and Its Environs. Macmillan & Company, Limited, 1922.
- Wheatley, Henry Benjamin. London, Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, Volume 3. John Murray, 1891.
- Willes, Margaret. Liberty over London Bridge: A History of the People of Southwark. Yale University Press, 2024.
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