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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Holborn. You may be able to find further references to Holborn in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | HOLBORN | a part of the metropolis, a parish, and a district | Imperial | Holborn (St Andrew below the Bars) | parish | Bartholomew | Staple Inn | parish | Bartholomew | St Sepulchre | parish | Bartholomew |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Holborn.
Place | Type of entry | Source | GRAYS INN ROAD | a chapelry | Imperial |
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This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Holborn within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.
Traveller | Section | No. of Refs. | William Camden | Middlesex and London | 2 | Charles Wesley | 1745: London, Bristol and South Wales | 1 | Celia Fiennes | 1697 Tour: London to Yorkshire | 1 | Celia Fiennes | 1697 Tour: Coventry to London | 1 | Robert Gammage | Liverpool and London in 1842 | 1 | Paul Hentzner | Arrival and London | 1 | John Wesley | 1737-8: Troubles in Georgia; Return to England | 1 | Thomas Pennant | Nantwich | 1 |
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This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
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Lincolns Inn | 1 | 2 |
Grays Inn | 3 | 2 |
Furnivals Inn | 1 | 2 |
Covent Garden | 2 | 1 |
Duchy of Lancaster | 0 | 1 |
Middle Temple | 0 | 2 |
St Giles | 1 | 3 |
Saffron Hill | 1 | 2 |
Grays Inn Road | 0 | 2 |
Strand | 1 | 5 |
Inner Temple | 0 | 1 |
Bloomsbury | 0 | 2 |
Clerkenwell | 2 | 2 |
Soho | 0 | 2 |
Charing Cross | 1 | 4 |
Charter House | 0 | 1 |
Glasshouse Yard | 0 | 2 |
St James | 0 | 2 |
Kings Cross | 0 | 2 |
Finsbury | 1 | 2 |