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Geoffrey Chaucer blue plaque
Geoffrey Chaucer · Author of the "canterbury Tales"
Inscription
“Geoffrey Chaucer 1342 to 1400. England's greatest medieval poet and author of the "Canterbury Tales". The Tabard Inn site from which Chaucer's Pilgrims set off in April 1386”
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1343-1400
Life dates
Talbot Yard, London Bridge, SE1
SE1
Erected 2003
London Borough of Southwark
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