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Holborn in central London has for many years been pronounced 'hoe-bun', but having so few local residents to preserve this, it's rapidly changing to a more natural 'hol-burn'". [33] [34] However, Modern British and American English pronunciation (2008) cites "Holborn" as one of its examples of a common word where the "l" is silent. [35]
This is a list of the etymology of street names in the London district of Holborn.Holborn has no formally defined boundaries - those utilised here are: Theobald’s Road to the north, Gray's Inn Road and the City of London boundary to the east, Victoria Embankment/the Thames to the south, and Lancaster Place, the north-west curve of the Aldwych semi-circle, Kingsway/Southampton Row to the west.
Holborn is an area of Central London, England. Holborn may also refer to: Holborn District (Metropolis), a local government district in the metropolitan area of London; Metropolitan Borough of Holborn, a local government district in the County of London; Holborn division, a former subdivision of Ossulstone, Middlesex, in England
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.
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 .
Holborn Computers was founded in 1979 by Hans Polak and Dick Gerdzen. The goal of the company was to supply computers based on microprocessor technology to specific types of retailers. [ 6 ] The company saw a market for cheaper computer systems as IBM computers were expensive at the time.
Covent Garden falls within the London boroughs of Westminster and Camden and the parliamentary constituencies of Cities of London and Westminster and Holborn and St Pancras. The area has been served by the Piccadilly line at Covent Garden tube station since 1907; the 300-yard (270 m) journey from Leicester Square tube station is the shortest in ...
The name Holborn appears Norse in origin, meaning hillfort, and the headland may be the Tarvedunum promotorium noted by Ptolemy. [2] At the tip is a bank, all that remains of a promontory fort, [3] which has been listed as a protected monument since 1933. [4]