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Holborn Viaduct is a road bridge in London and the name of the street which crosses it (which forms part of the A40 route). It links Holborn, via Holborn Circus, with Newgate Street, in the City of London, England financial district, passing over Farringdon Street and the subterranean River Fleet. The viaduct spans the steep-sided Holborn Hill ...
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 .
In 1958 the disused tunnel was reopened at the southern end to make a new connection, the Strand Underpass, for light traffic between Waterloo Bridge and Kingsway in order to reduce congestion. Also beneath Kingsway was a branch of the Piccadilly tube line from Holborn to Aldwych station on the Strand; this was closed in 1994. Aldwych station ...
Holborn (/ ˈ h oʊ b ər n / ⓘ HOH-bərn or / ˈ h oʊ l b ər n /), an area in central London, covers the south-eastern part of the London Borough of Camden and a part (St Andrew Holborn Below the Bars) of the Ward of Farringdon Without in the City of London.
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.
In 1874 the line was extended to Holborn Viaduct where a new terminus was built. In 1886 a second parallel bridge across River Thames opened. At the northern end of the bridge St. Paul's station (later renamed Blackfriars) was opened by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway. Blackfriars Bridge station on the south bank closed at this time.
The Cape Fear Memorial Bridge opened in 1969, with the Holmes bridge providing a new span for Wilmington's Northside in 1980. Elsewhere in New Hanover County, the first bridge into Wrightsville ...
The CLR was to run in a pair of tunnels under Bayswater Road, Oxford Street, New Oxford Street, High Holborn, Holborn, Holborn Viaduct, Newgate Street, Cheapside, and Poultry. Stations were planned at Queen's Road, Stanhope Terrace, Marble Arch , Oxford Circus , Tottenham Court Road , Southampton Row , Holborn Circus , St. Martin's Le Grand and ...