Low Country

Status: Open
Address: 71 Nile Street, N1 7RD (streetmap) (osm) (gmap) (bingmap) (streetview)
London borough: Hackney
Former name(s): Duke of Wellington
Former address: 20 Cross Street (1869)
[also listed as 20 Nile Street (1871) and as 19 Cross Street (1839)]
Historical parish: Shoreditch
Dates open: by 1839-2016, c2024-
Owner: Going Ethnic (former)
Courage (former)
Charrington (former, possibly)
Website: Website
Notes: Also known as the "Welly" (according to a sign put up in c2015, although it's unclear if the pub was ever officially going by this name). Renamed as "Low Country" in 2024. This is a downstairs cocktail bar beneath its sister restaurant, which occupies the ground floor.
Photo taken in August 2009
Sources: Close date: Hackney Gazette
Reopen date/Renaming/Owner: CAMRA
Census 1861 [W Carter] (as "Wellington")/1871 [W Carter] (as "Duke of Wellington")/1891 [R Sanders] (as "Wellington")
London Drinker WP13
PO 1839/1856/1869/1882/1895/1915 (all as "Duke of Wellington")
Tris C (e-mail)
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