BOOK FLEET STREET HOTELS

Rather interesting Fleet Street facts

Send in your views of Fleet Street | Read visitor reports

Did you know that Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese pub, just off Fleet Street, was the first new building to open in London after the Great Fire ? Planning priorities getting it right for once. Its roots as a hostelry go back to at least the 13th century, though then as a monastic guest house rather than an inn. The Cheese has a plaque marking where Dr Johnson and other literary figures are said to have sat.

If you like this, Share it

Brit Quote:
Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters - Joseph Conrad
More Quotes

On this day:
Battle of Maldon - 0991, Royal Observatory Founded - 1675, First Prom Concert - 1895, First Mr Men books published - 1971, Hottest Day Ever in Britain - 2003
More dates from British history

click here to view all the British counties

County Pages