Ben Jonson brown plaque


Connection to This Location
# Ben Jonson at Pitfield Street, Hackney Standing before Arden House on Pitfield Street, you're standing at the threshold of one of Elizabethan London's most notorious gathering places—the Pimlico Hostelry and Pleasure Gardens, where revelry and danger mingled in equal measure from the 1590s onward...
Location
LBH Housing, Arden House, Pitfield Street, Hackney
Inscription
This site formed part of The Pimlico Hostelry and Pleasure Gardens A noted place of entertainment Established by 1590s Ben Jonson fought a duel near here.