at 22 High Holborn, London , WC1V 6BN United Kingdom
<p>The <b>Cittie of Yorke</b> is a <a href="/pages/w/1413734828863883">grade II listed</a> <a href="/pages/w/103127106394243">public house</a> on London's <a href="/pages/w/137286656295032">High Holborn</a>, and is listed in <a href="/pages/w/108237459196626">CAMRA's</a> <a href="/pages/w/123360791041729">National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors</a>. The pub is owned and operated by <a href="/pages/w/112027222156683">Samuel Smith's Old Brewery</a>.</p><p>Although the current building is a rebuilding of the 1920s, the buildings on this site have been pubs since 1430. Some features include the <i>Henekey's long bar</i> located in the grand, hall-like back room, a late-<a href="/pages/w/107617069267623">Georgian</a> or <a href="/pages/w/114420778570273">Regency era</a> triangular metal stove, and <a href="/pages/w/107817815904910">Victorian</a>-style cubicles.</p><p>The Welsh poet <a href="/pages/w/113290035351368">Dylan Thomas</a> penned an impromptu ode to the pub when it was called Henneky's Long Bar. Fred Jarvis, a former general secretary of the <a href="/pages/w/112658802083247">National Union of Teachers</a>, found the previously unknown poem in 2014 while going through papers belonging to his late parents-in-law who knew Thomas. The top of the poem reads "This little song was written in Henneky's Long Bar High Holborn by Dylan Thomas in 1951." <a href="/pages/w/108261872528021">Orion Publishing Group</a> plans to include the song in a new edition of collected Thomas poems in October 2014.</p>
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The Cittie Of Yorke is London based place and this enity listed in Pub category. Located at 22 High Holborn WC1V 6BN. Contact phone number of The Cittie Of Yorke: 020 7242 7670