The Tabard is the inn at which the principals meet in that same Prologue.

The site of The Tabard inn ( featured in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales ), the White Hart inn and the George Inn which survives.

The prize for this contest is a free meal at the Tabard Inn at Southwark on their return.

Archaeological work at Tabard Street in 2004 discovered a plaque with the earliest reference to ' London ' from the Roman period on it.

The area was renowned for its inns, especially The Tabard, from which Chaucer's pilgrims set off on their journey in The Canterbury Tales.

A Tabard was not solely used for faction identification on the battlefield.

The musical premiered on May 6, 2008, at the Royal Haymarket Theatre in London .. Marguerite is to receive its first London revival at the Tabard Theatre, Chiswick this October 2012, as a revised work.

Bifel that in that season on a day, In Southwerk at the Tabard as I layRedy to wenden on my pilgrymageTo Caunterbury with ful devout corage, At nyght was come into that hostelryeWel nyne and twenty in a compaignyeOf sondry folk, by aventure yfalleIn felaweshipe, and pilgrimes were they alle, That toward Caunterbury wolden ryde ; The chambres and the stables weren wyde, And well we weren esed atte beste ;

On 23 November 2003, a blue plaque was installed on the wall of Copyprints Ltd, the oldest building in Talbot Yard, describing the historical significance of the Tabard Inn and celebrating Southwark's cultural links with Geoffrey Chaucer.

It lies within the modern day London Borough of Southwark on Borough High Street at the junction with Long Lane, Marshalsea Road, and Tabard Street.

Tabard Street was subsequently extended through the churchyard on the north side of the church, leaving the church on an island site.

There were stories and performances on display, such as Dramawise's Alice in Wonderland and Tabard Production's The Canterbury Tales.

The site of the Tabard is next door to The George ( itself one of London's oldest public houses ) in Talbot Yard, to the east of Borough High Street.

The stretch of Borough High Street south of the junction with Long Lane, Marshalsea Road, and Tabard Street, where stands the ancient church of St George the Martyr, was formerly called ' Blackman Street ' after a long resident family there.

Spare had moved to South London, a run-down council flat at 52 Becket House, Tabard Street in Southwark, describing his life here " as a swine, with swine.

The Dover Road mostly follows the alignment of Roman Watling Street, though, here, the original Roman route was along Tabard Street closely parallel with Great Dover Street to the north.

* Tabard Street

This, at least in part, derives from what was the small de Ardern family property which occupied the corner of the junction of the high street and ‘ old ’ Kent street ( now Tabard Street ), presumably this had been acquired from Canterbury after 1086.

Originally, a much narrower road to the south of the church called Church Street led into Kent Street ( now renamed Tabard Street ), the historic route to Dover.

The Tabard Inn, Southwark, London, around 1850

Famous London inns include The George, Southwark and The Tabard.

" Within a few months, several residences had been completed, along with the three-story Tabard Inn, which was named for the Southwark hostelry in Canterbury Tales.

The Tabard Inn, Southwark, around 1850

* The Tabard Inn in Southwark, another nineteenth-century engraving

The narrator Geoffrey Chaucer is in the Tabard Inn, in Southwark, where he meets a motley crew of middle-class folk from various parts of England.

John was a weak king, known as " Toom Tabard " or " Empty Coat ".

John Balliol ( Norman French: Johan de Bailliol ; – 25 November 1314 ), known to the Scots as Toom Tabard (" empty suit "), was King of Scots from 1292 to 1296.

Rugby's main resort hotel, the Tabard, was forced to close due to the typhoid outbreak in 1881, however, and burned down altogether in 1884, halting Rugby's burgeoning tourist economy and damaging the Board of Aid's credit.

The remains of a small Roman temple was excavated at Tabard Square in 2003.

It was next door to The George Inn and near the site of The Tabard.

By the time the antiquary John Stow wrote his Survey, the Tabard was one among a crowd of inns that lined the thoroughfare that led south from London Bridge towards Canterbury and Dover, " many fair inns, for receipt of travellers, by these signs: the Spurre, Christopher, Bull, Queen's Head, Tabard, George, Hart, King's Head " & c. At the Dissolution of the Monasteries " the Tabard of the Monastery of Hyde, and the Abbot's Place, with the stable and gardens thereunto belonging " were sold to John and Thomas Master.

Probably the most famous was The Tabard where, in 1388, Chaucer began The Canterbury Tales.

The Tabard was also rebuilt after the same fire, but was demolished in the late 19th century.

She attended Dartmouth College, where she earned a degree in environmental policy and was a member of The Tabard, a co-ed fraternity.

The production was such a success, that it transferred to The Tabard Theatre, Chiswick for a further six weeks.

Dervorguilla's son John of Scotland was briefly a King of Scots too, known as Toom Tabard ( Scots: ' puppet king ' literally " empty coat ").

In 1904, a subscription library called the Tabard Inn was established in F. C.

Including an account of the most famous archers of ancient and modern times ; with some curious particulars in the life of Robert Fitz-Ooth Earl of Huntington, vulgarly called Robin Hood .... York: printed for E. Hargrove, bookseller, Knaresbro ' ( later editions: York, 1845 and facsimile reprint, London: Tabard Press, 1970 )

In Summer 1881, a typhoid outbreak killed seven colonists — including Dakeyne — and forced the Tabard Inn to close for cleansing, but the colony recovered.

The 1986 reconstructed Jubilee will play for five weeks from the 13th of June 2012 at the Tabard Theatre in Chiswick, London.

London: Tabard Press, 1973.

Famous London examples of inns include the George and the Tabard.

The next London production of the play will be at the Tabard Theatre in late June and early July 2011.