High Holborn

Names

  • High Holborn
  • High Holborne
  • Holborne

Street/Area/District

  • High Holborn

Maps & Views

Descriptions

from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)

High Holborn

West from Holborn Bars to Drury Lane, outside the City boundary (P.O. Directory).

First mention: "High Holborne," 1544 (L. and P. H. VIII. XIX. (1), p. 622).

Referred to as "Holborne" in earlier records, as in 14 Ed. III. (Anc. Deeds, B. 2391).

See Holborn.

from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)

[High Holborn Street.] Now the High Oldborn Street, from the North End of New Street stretcheth on the left Hand (in building lately framed) up to St. Giles in the Fields. [But the Way leading from the Bars in Oldborn Westward towards the said St. Giles, was very foul and full of Pits and Sloughs, and very perilous, and noysome to all that repaired and passed that Way, as well on Foot, as on Horse-back, or with Carriages. And so were other Lanes and Places that led out of, or into Holborn: as Shoe Lane, Feuter Lane, New Street, or Chancery Lane, Grays Inn Lane. Upon Complaint whereof, an Act was made in the 32 H. 8. An. 1542. to pave all those Places with paving Stones; as also on the East of the City, the Way from Aldgate to Whitechapel Church, which had the same ill Passage. All to be paved and made convenient for Passengers, by the Feast of St. John Baptist, 1542. in Manner and Form as the Cawsey or Highway leading from Strandbridge to Charing Cross had been made and paved. High Holborn Street. High Holborn paved, and Shoe Lane Fetter Lane. &c. 32. H. 8. J. S.

from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)

High Holbourn, a very spacious Street, replenished with good Buildings, and well inhabited, chiefly by Tradesmen. This part of Holbourn begins at the Bars, and runs Westwards into St. Giles's; but not all in this Parish, as before noted.

from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)

High Holborn, that part of Holborn beyond the bars, and out of the liberties of the city.

from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)

Holborn (High),—the W. continuation of the last described [Holborn Hill], extending from Middle-row, where the numbers begin and end, viz. 1 and 320, to Drury-lane and Broad-st. St. Giles's, about ⅔ of a mile in length.