The medieval pub was situated next door to The Tabard Inn where Chaucer set the beginning of The Canterbury Tales.

[2] Later, the Great Northern Railway used the George as a depot and pulled down two of its fronts to build warehousing.

[citation needed] Charles Dickens visited The George, and referred to it in both Little Dorrit and Our Mutual Friend.

[citation needed] It is the only surviving galleried coaching inn in London.

Immediately to the south was The Tabard (which was described in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales); it too was demolished in the nineteenth century.