London’s final Beefeaters were the Fountain in Twickenham, London Woolwich and Travellers Rest at Kenton. The first Beefeater in Enfield had already become a Toby Carvery years earlier. A London history therefore needs both the last three and the older addresses, while keeping their dates distinct.
The Fountain and Travellers Rest were sizeable roadside pubs before their Beefeater chapters, whereas Woolwich was part of a much later hotel development. Those different beginnings explain why photographs and memories of London Beefeaters can look nothing alike. The pages below retain the local pub names, precise addresses and sources rather than presenting them as examples of one standard restaurant building.
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Photographs from London
Three local stories
The Fountain, Twickenham
Twickenham’s Fountain was a roadhouse built in 1939 at Staines Road and Sixth Cross Road. CAMRA explains the name through two circular fountains once standing outside, a detail that makes sense of the pub even after the fountains disappeared. It also dates an early-2011 refurbishment and describes the later change to dining for hotel guests. A Beefeater memory here can therefore relate to different interiors within an older building. The public restaurant’s closure and the continuation of hotel meals are kept separate, so a surviving hotel connection does not become a promise of public dining.
CAMRA venue history ↗ · CAMRA: Fountain September update ↗ ·
Travellers Rest, Kenton
Kenton’s Travellers Rest faces the station across Kenton Road. An earlier Rest Hotel appears on the 1914 Ordnance Survey map, while the present pub was rebuilt in 1933. CAMRA says it claimed at that opening to be Middlesex’s largest public house. Its later Beefeater and hotel use occupied a place already associated with travel and sizeable public rooms. The mapped earlier pub and the rebuilt building are different dates in the same site’s history. Keeping both dates explains why a familiar old pub name need not mean that the current structure has survived unchanged since the first map reference.
CAMRA venue record ↗ · London Pubology ↗ · Wikipedia: Kenton Road ↗ ·
London Woolwich, Woolwich
London Woolwich is a newer contrast to the Fountain and Travellers Rest. Its Beefeater opened on Beresford Street in July 2017 with the 128-room Premier Inn London Woolwich Royal Arsenal. Construction had begun around 2012 but stalled before Berkeley took over and restarted the work. The final restaurant layout put the bar and dining space on opposite sides, with outdoor tables behind the building. These details place a remembered visit in the completed hotel development, rather than in an old roadhouse. The restaurant’s opening date and the longer construction story describe different stages, both useful for understanding the address.
CAMRA venue record ↗ · From The Murky Depths (Woolwich blog) ↗ · From The Murky Depths (Woolwich blog) ↗ ·
Every final Beefeater in London
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- The Fountain, Twickenham — Hotel guests only · TW2 5PE
- London Woolwich, Woolwich — No news yet · SE18 6BF
- Travellers Rest, Kenton — No news yet · HA3 8AT
Earlier Beefeaters in London
Enfield: Halfway House
The first Beefeater opened here in July 1974, at 801 Great Cambridge Road, EN1 3PN. CAMRA records its conversion to Toby Carvery in April 2009. The old Halfway House name has stayed familiar locally.
Uxbridge, Riverside Way
This Beefeater at 3 Riverside Way, UB8 2YF, opened in 2015. It stopped public service in early July 2024 and became a restaurant for hotel guests.
West Middlesex CAMRA pub update, May–Jul 2024 ↗ · CAMRA 164700 / westmiddx 61634 ↗ · Pubology 12771 ↗ ·
Hayes: Millington Road and The Grapes
The two Hayes sites were at Millington Road, UB3 4AZ, and 362 Uxbridge Road, UB4 0HF. The local CAMRA account places both public closures in early July 2024. Millington Road serves the hotel above; The Grapes was also understood to have become guest-only.
Monkey Puzzle, Chessington
The Leatherhead Road restaurant, KT9 2NE, was in Kingston borough, near the theme park. It closed to public diners on 5 July 2024 and continued for Premier Inn guests. It is separate from Queensway’s Monkey Puzzle in Farnborough.
Coombe Lodge
The listed house at 104 Coombe Road, Croydon, remained a Beefeater until 2 September 2025. The Papas Group bought the freehold, and a Wetherspoon opened on 19 December 2025.
Park Place
The Beefeater opened in August 1996 in listed Almonds House, Mitcham, a building dating to 1649. It passed to Mitchells & Butlers in the 2008 swap and now trades as Toby Carvery.
Crown
The pub at 155 Bromley Common occupies an 1866 building. CAMRA identifies it as a former Beefeater, now a Toby Carvery.