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High Holborn (/ ˈ h oʊ b ər n / HOH-bərn) is a street in Holborn and Farringdon Without, Central London, which forms a part of the A40 route from London to Fishguard. It starts in the west at the eastern end of St Giles High Street and runs past the Kingsway and Southampton Row , becoming Holborn at its eastern junction with Gray's Inn Road .
The Great Fire died as it reached Holborn's boundary. Rocque map of 1746. Holborn is developed, but the built-up area stopped at the brook which formed the parish boundary with St Pancras (modern King's Cross) to the north. The area was not damaged by the Great Fire of London in 1666, though the area of destruction reached its south-eastern ...
London Borough of Camden (London Borough of Camden → Greater London → London → England → United Kingdom) Camera location 51° 31′ 03.2″ N, 0° 07′ 17″ W
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Holborn Town Hall, built in 1894, still exists, on High Holborn, and still has the coat of arms in the façade. [2] The entrance gate piers to the church of St Giles-in-the-Fields commemorate the Borough when it was amalgamated in 1965, and bear an inscription to this effect, although the arch that bore the borough's arms has since been removed.
Chancery Lane, numbered the B400 in the British road numbering scheme, connects Fleet Street at its southern origin with High Holborn. It gives its name to Chancery Lane Underground station which lies at the junction of Holborn and Gray's Inn Road, a short distance from Chancery Lane's northern end.
Staple Inn is a part-Tudor building on the south side of High Holborn street in the City of London, London, England. Located near Chancery Lane tube station, it is used as the London venue for meetings of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, and is the last surviving Inn of Chancery. It was designated a Grade I listed building in 1974. [1]
Holborn (/ ˈ h oʊ b ər n / HOH-bə(r)n) [a] is a London Underground station in Holborn, Central London, located at the junction of High Holborn and Kingsway. [10] It is served by the Central and Piccadilly lines and is located in Travelcard Zone 1 .