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By Johnny Homer

the town of London, the fabled ‘Square Mile’, is the monetary hub of global exchange. it's also a space with a wealthy and nearly tangible historical past, a background that's mirrored in its vibrant and sundry choice of pubs and watering holes. the town can boast one of many maximum densities of pubs anyplace on this planet, and those pubs variety from seventeenth-century taverns relationship from simply after the good hearth of 1666 via to sleek and hip sleek bars catering for today’s smooth ‘city worker’. Amazingly there was no devoted booklet concerning the urban of London’s pubs in over 40 years. Given the area’s becoming residential inhabitants, the loads of millions who paintings there in the course of the week and the large variety of travelers that stopover at each year, the time is correct for a brand new consultant to the city’s assorted and myriad pubs.

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