The White Hart Inn was a
coaching inn located on
Borough High Street in
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. In 1450 the inn was the headquarters of
Jack Cade's rebellion. The earlier inn was destroyed in the Great Fire of Southwark in 1676, but was rebuilt. It was located close to other coaching inns including
The Tabard and
The George Inn, and like the George had a galleried structure.[3] It was demolished in 1889.[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.