Holborn
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Holborn is an area in central London, that covers the southeastern part of the London Borough of Camden and a part of the Ward of Farringdon Without in the City of London.
Staple Inn, near Chancery Lane tube station, the last of the Inns of Chancery
Passage North side of Holborn, 1897 by Philip Norman
Peter Pan statue at Great Ormond Street Hospital
Former Pearl Assurance Company building, now the Rosewood London
River Fleet
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The River Fleet is the largest of London's subterranean rivers, all of which today contain foul water for treatment. It has been used as a culverted sewer since the development of Joseph Bazalgette's
Holborn
…Ward of Farringdon Without in the City of London. The area has its roots in the ancient parish of Holborn, which lay on the west bank of the now buried River Fleet; the district takes its name from an alternative name for the river: the Holbourne (or Oldbourne). The area is sometimes described as part of the West…
Entrance to the River Fleet as it emerges into the Thames, by Samuel Scott, c. 1750
Headwaters at Vale of Health Pond drain to the Hampstead Stream
The Hampstead Stream
Viaduct Pond drains to downstream ponds