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Silver Cross Tavern

1674 establishments in EnglandBrothels in the United KingdomGrade II listed pubs in the City of WestminsterProstitution in EnglandUse British English from January 2014
Silver Cross, Trafalgar Square, SW1 (3386981339)
Silver Cross, Trafalgar Square, SW1 (3386981339)

The Silver Cross Tavern is a pub on Whitehall in London, England. It was first opened as a licensed pub in 1674. The building had been an establishment at that location since the thirteenth century. It has been argued to be the only theoretically legal (albeit non-operating) brothel in the country, on the grounds that a 17th-century royal licence on the building was never revoked.

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Silver Cross Tavern
Whitehall, London Covent Garden

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Grand Caffe Concerto

Whitehall 43
SW1A 2BX London, Covent Garden
England, United Kingdom
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Silver Cross, Trafalgar Square, SW1 (3386981339)
Silver Cross, Trafalgar Square, SW1 (3386981339)
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