Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, Historic pub in Fleet Street, London, England
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese is a historic pub on Fleet Street in the heart of the City of London, listed as a Grade II protected building. Its rooms spread across several floors connected by tight wooden staircases that open into tucked-away parlors with paneled walls.
The building rose after the Great Fire of 1666 on the foundations of a 13th-century monastery. Over the following centuries, it drew writers like Dickens and Doyle who spent evenings here.
The dining spaces carry names that recall old craft trades like weavers and smiths who once worked in this corner of town. Visitors still gather in the narrow room beneath low timber beams, where diners once summoned waiters by ringing small bells.
The entrance sits directly on Fleet Street, just a short walk from St Paul's Cathedral. Tight stairs and low ceilings make access difficult for people with limited mobility, so checking ahead helps.
Beneath the building lie vaulted medieval cellars with stone walls that still hold the beer casks today. The passages run deeper beneath the street than one would guess from above.
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