White Hart, 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.

[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.

[5] The inn's name survives in the street White Hart Yard, its former courtyard.