New look for a city pub that was once on farmland - Beer Today

New look for a city pub that was once on farmland - Beer Today

Nicholson’s Pubs Collections has re-opened The York, an iconic pub on London’s Islington High Street, following an extensive refurbishment. Until the late 18th century, the site of The York was open fields and part of a farm. In 1838, the premises was a private house belonging to the Pullen and Rhodes families, where dairy cows once grazed up to the back door. The house became The York Hotel in 1851, thus named as it sat on a major road for nort…