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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 (/ 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.

  4. Holborn Viaduct - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. Gray's Inn - Wikipedia

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    Located at the intersection of High Holborn and Gray's Inn Road in Central London, the Inn is a professional body and provides office and some residential accommodation for barristers. It is ruled by a governing council called "Pension", made up of the Masters of the Bench (or " benchers ") and led by the Treasurer , who is elected to serve a ...

  6. Gamages - Wikipedia

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    In London Belongs to Me [11] by Norman Collins, Connie visits Gamages to buy a new cage for her beloved canary, Duke.. In an episode of the BBC sitcom Porridge titled 'Heartbreak Hotel', Fletcher tells his daughter how, at the time of her conception, her mother had 'a nice steady job in the hardware department at Gamages'.

  7. 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.

  8. Cittie of Yorke - Wikipedia

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    The Cittie of Yorke is a grade II listed public house on London's High Holborn, and is listed in CAMRA's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors. [1] [2] The pub is owned and operated by Samuel Smith Old Brewery. Although the current building is a rebuilding of the 1920s, the buildings on this site have been pubs since 1430. [2]

  9. Great Turnstile - Wikipedia

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    Great Turnstile, Little Turnstile and New Turnstile link the highway of High Holborn and the open ground of Lincoln's Inn Fields. They are named after the turnstiles which were put there in Tudor times to prevent cattle grazing on the fields from escaping into Holborn. [3] [4] The New Turnstile is so-called because it was created later in 1685. [5]