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  2. High Holborn - Wikipedia

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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 .

  3. Holborn - Wikipedia

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    Holborn emerged from the ancient parish of St Andrew Holborn and its later sub-divisions. The parish church is first mentioned, and described as old, in a charter of 959, but this is before the parish or the landholdings on which it was based took on anything like their settled form.

  4. National Hall, Holborn - Wikipedia

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    The National Hall, Holborn was a building in High Holborn, London, owned in the 1840s by the National Association for Promoting the Political and Social Improvement of the People. [1] The lease of 242A High Holborn was taken by the National Association in January 1842, for the "Hall of the National Association", which was fitted out in the ...

  5. Metropolitan Borough of Holborn - Wikipedia

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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.

  6. List of English and Welsh endowed schools (19th century)

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    This is a list of some of the endowed schools in England and Wales existing in the early part of the 19th century.It is based on the antiquarian Nicholas Carlisle's survey of "Endowed Grammar Schools" published in 1818 [1] with descriptions of 475 schools [2] but the comments are referenced also to the work of the Endowed Schools Commission half a century later.

  7. List of former schools in the City of London - Wikipedia

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    Neale's Mathematical School, St Dunstan in the West [12] 1931–1940 1924–1954 Queenhithe Ward School [13] 1847–1871 Ragged School Union [14] 1860 Ratcliff School, Ratcliff Highway [15] 1520–1607 1823–1889 St Andrew Undershaft School [16] 1634–1805 St Anne and St Agnes Charity School [17] 1770 St Bartholomew the Great Parochial School ...

  8. Staple Inn - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. Mercers' School - Wikipedia

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    At different times the school had several different homes in the City of London: Cheapside, Old Jewry, and College Hill ; in 1894 it moved to Barnard's Inn, a site on the south side of Holborn. [1] The school was admitted to the Headmasters' Conference in 1935. [2] It finally closed in 1959. [3]