Pimlico Hostelry and Pleasure Gardens - Pitfield Street, London, UK
N 51° 31.802 W 000° 04.977
30U E 702327 N 5712803
This brown plaque, erected by the London Borough of Hackney, is attached to a building on the south east side of Pitfield Street. The building is a block of flats in private grounds so the co-ordinates are for a place where the plaque can be seen.
Waymark Code: WMN186
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 12/06/2014
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The London Remembers website tells us:
It seems likely that this tavern and pleasure gardens took the name of a publican with the foreign name 'Pimlico'. There were many places of entertainment nearby and the whole area became known as Pimlico. Later another area of London also gained a reputation for its places of entertainment and so that acquired the same name, Pimlico, and never lost it.
