Holborn
Coordinates: 51°31′02″N 0°07′06″W / 51.5172°N 0.1182°W
Holborn (pronounced /ˈhəʊbən/ HOE-bən)[1] is an area of Central London, England. Holborn is also the name of the area's principal east-west street. The street runs from St Giles's High Street as High Holborn to Gray's Inn Road to Holborn Viaduct. It crosses the borders of the City of Westminster, London Borough of Camden and the City of London.
Holborn shown within Holborn Media
Passage North side of Holborn, 1897 by Philip Norman
St Andrew Holborn, Below the Bars, in the west of the City of London
The parts of Holborn outside the City formed the eastern part of the Metropolitan Borough of Holborn. The former combined parish of Bloomsbury and St Giles (including most of the Lincoln's Inn Ward).
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.
Peter Pan statue at Great Ormond Street Hospital
Former Pearl Assurance Company building, now the Rosewood London
Holborn Bars, built 1879–1901, headquarters of the Prudential Assurance Company, at 138–142 Holborn
The former Holborn Town Hall, completed 1894
References
- ↑ Roberts, Andrew; Matthew Teller (2004). The Rough Guide to Britain. London: Rough Guides Ltd. p. 109. ISBN 1-84353-301-4. Retrieved 18 November 2009.
Other websites
- Holborn and Bloomsbury, by Sir Walter Besant and Geraldine Edith Mitton, 1903, from Project Gutenberg
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