Geoffrey Chaucer blue plaque

Connection to This Location

# Talbot Yard, London Bridge Standing in the shadow of modern London Bridge, this modest Southwark courtyard marks the site of the Tabard Inn, the very threshold where Chaucer's imagination took flight in the spring of 1386. It was from this bustling medieval hostelry—a gathering place thick with t...

Location

Talbot Yard, London Bridge, SE1

Inscription

Geoffrey Chaucer 1342 to 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