Dating from 1585, this historic tavern has more character than a West End musical. It was supposedly highwayman Dick Turpin’s hang-out between robberies, but it's also been a watering hole for more savoury characters like Romantic poets Keats and Byron and artist Sir Joshua Reynolds. It even gets a mention in The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens and Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
There’s a big, blissful garden that gets crammed at weekends.
