The Wilbury

The Wilbury is a pub and restaurant located on Wilbury Hills Road in Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, England. Formerly known as The Gardeners Arms, the pub stands on the western edge of Letchworth and later became part of the Stonehouse Pizza & Carvery chain. Its location away from the town centre distinguishes it from most of the other Letchworth filming locations used in The World’s End.

The Wilbury has appeared in The World’s End (2013), where it was used as the fictional pub that gives the film its title and serves as the twelfth and final destination on the Golden Mile pub crawl. At the time of filming, the pub was known as The Gardeners Arms.

In The World’s End (2013), The Wilbury appears as The World’s End, the final pub that Gary King and his friends have been trying to reach throughout the film. After the pub crawl through the fictional town of Newton Haven descends into chaos, Gary, Andy and Steven finally arrive at the twelfth stop. The pub marks the culmination of Gary’s obsessive attempt to complete the Golden Mile, before the story moves into its climactic confrontation with the Network beneath Newton Haven. The real pub was dressed and renamed The World’s End for filming, making it the location associated with the ultimate destination of the film’s pub crawl.

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