Goat in Boots - Fulham Road, London, UK
N 51° 29.174 W 000° 10.824
30U E 695757 N 5707668
The 'Goat in Boots' is a public house at the corner of Fulham Road and Park Walk.
Waymark Code: WMF1P9
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/07/2012
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The Elm Park Mansions webste (visit link)
tells us:
"A pub named The Goat in Boots marks the Fulham Road
entrance into Park Walk. Its rather strange name is thought to have come from
the Dutch ‘Mercurius is der Goden Boode’ which means ‘ Mercury is the Messenger
of the Gods’ . (Mercury was the sign used by inns where post-horses were kept).
The original feature of the gods’ messenger was transformed into the
figure of a goat with boots, cutlass and spurs by the artist George
Morland, an impoverished artist in payment of his tavern bill."
Be sure to see both of the pub's signs. One is on the wall
in Park Walk and the other projects from the wall in Fulham
Road.