pubs

I timed 7,194 journeys to find London's most equidistant pub

2 months ago

The Greene Man at 383 Euston Road is London's most equidistant pub, with a 47-minute spread between nearest and furthest boroughs and a worst-case journey of 70 minutes.
No pub in London is within 60 minutes of all 33 boroughs; only two pubs become reachable by everyone at 70 minutes, both near Great Portland Street station.
The geographic centre of London is in SE1, but the travel-time centre has shifted 2.1 miles northwest to the Euston Road, making the network's fairer meeting point different from the map's.
Famous pubs like the Prospect of Whitby are highly unfair meeting places, with spreads of up to 77 minutes and worst-case journeys of 96 minutes.
The analysis used TfL Journey Planner data for 3,170 pubs, measuring journey times from population-weighted borough centroids on a Thursday evening in September 2026.
The borough league shows Hillingdon as the worst-served, requiring 70 minutes to reach The Greene Man, while the City of London is the best-served at 23 minutes.