High Holborn
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High Holborn is a road in Holborn in central London, England. It starts in the west near St Giles' Circus, then goes east, past Bloomsbury Street, the Kingsway and Southampton Row, and continues east. The road becomes Holborn at the junction with Gray's Inn Road.
Part of it forms the northern border of Covent Garden. The nearest tube stations are Tottenham Court Road, Holborn, and Chancery Lane.
The road is designated the A40.
Holborn Bars, built as the headquarters of the Prudential Assurance Company, is one of the most striking buildings on High Holborn. |
Staple Inn, with its distinctive timber framed façade, on the south side of High Holborn. |