Erection date: 23/11/2003
Geoffrey Chaucer, 1342 - 1400, England's greatest medieval poet and author of the "Canterbury Tales".
The Tabard Inn, site from which Chaucer's pilgrims set off in April 1386.
London Borough of Southwark - Voted by the People
Unveiled by Terry Jones of the Pythons.
SE1, Talbot Yard
The plaque is apparently on the oldest building in Talbot Yard.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Chaucer's Tabard Inn
Set up by an abbot from Winchester to give his brethren somewhere to stay in ...
Poet and administrator. Whilst living in the Aldgate, as the ‘Comptroller of ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Chaucer's Tabard Inn
The London Borough of Southwark was created as an amalgamation of the Metropo...
As far as we know (and we have walked the full length) this is the only such plaque on the New River. Finsbury Park was created in 1869 ...
Mace Street and Tagg Street were two Victorian streets on the east side of Bonner Street, now lost to the Cranbrook Estate. This 1893 map...
Did they point out that the fire happened on Ash Wednesday because they saw the humour? And "a very inconsiderable outlay" is not how we...
The plaque mentions the Charing Cross, Edgware & Hampstead Railway. We believe this should be the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampste...
For more information about this hero click on the picture of his plaque.
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