Building dates back to 1558.

To Let, June 1782 with Immediate Possession.
Apply at the Old Cat and Fiddle Brewing Office, St. Saviour's.

The White Lion Brewery is recorded from 1830 to early 1840s, run by James Butcher.

On Friday 18th July 1866, George Key was accused of having his house open at five minutes past three o'clock in the morning on the previous Tuesday. Police-constable Hendry had entered the house and found five men and four women. A glass of beer and a glass of `pop' were on the table. Key claimed that the beer had been left there for over two hours, he further claimed that the constable was tipsy when he arrived. Key was reprimanded for making such charges and fined 10s and costs.


Known by the 1930s as DANCOCKS, after the then long serving landlord.


Damaged by enemy action 27/29.04.1942.
(The adjoining property was destroyed and rebuilt as a single storey building. This was used as a hairdressers salon. Later this building was incorporated into the WHITE LION).

A freehouse from 1975 and offering a wide range of ales from 1982.
Refurbished in 1980's including removing the ground floor cellar to a building in the yard and converting the old cellar into a third bar.

Following a change of owners in 1988, the house passed to Brent Walker and by 1990 was trading under the name of TAP & SPILE from 30th May 1990.

Returned as the OLD WHITE LION 16th July 1997.

Closed January 1998 and re-opened February 1998 after `a lick of paint'.

Closed and boarded up April 2005

REOPENED 29th September 2008
under the ownership of the Cambridge Milton Brewery.

The WHITE LION again.