Let's All Go Down the Strand
I did my first crawl based on Discovering London's Inns and Taverns by John Wittich (4th edition, 1996). It's not really a pub crawler's guide - more of a historical list with a bit of a ramble. My route is taken from Chapter 2, Let's All Go Down the Strand. My preparatory work eliminated two out of 12 as not really pubs in the first place (the Savoy Hotel and Rule's on Maiden Lane), two that are just about drinking places but not my cup of tea (this cocktail bar (formerly a Hogshead) and this drag queen bar (formerly the George Adelphi)), and one that has become a burger joint (Gordon Ramsay Street Burger (formerly the Peacock)), leaving seven of which one, not surprisingly, turned out to have closed: Punch & Judy.
Here's the shortened crawl:
1. formerly St Martins Tavern, now Theodore Bullfrog
2. The Coal Hole
3. Lyceum Tavern
4. Nell of Old Drury
5. The Nags Head
6. The Lemon Tree
See the crawl route here.