The Ship & Shovell

London's only pub split across both sides of a street. The Ship & Shovell is two separate bars divided by Craven Passage and connected underground by a shared cellar — until 1998 they were actually two separate pubs, The Ship and The Shovell, until the cellars were joined by a tunnel containing the kitchen. The buildings date from 1731-33 and have been Grade II listed since 1970. Named after Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell, who rose from cabin boy to Admiral of the Fleet before dying in a shipwreck off the Scilly Isles. People congregate all the way up the alley. From here, the last of the bigger walks — about seventeen minutes to Fleet Street.