Holborn is a Town in the county of Greater London.

Holborn in Greater London is located 1.6 km W from City of London, 2.5 km NE from Westminster and 3.0 km NE from London.

Holborn postcode: WC1R 5AH

Retail in Holborn

There are great places to visit near Holborn including some great cities, castles, museums, historic buildings, rivers and streams, shopping centres, towns, country parks, nature reserves, historic monuments, airports and bluebell woods.

Places near Holborn feature a number of interesting cities including London.

The area close to Holborn boasts some of the best castles including The Tower of London.

There are a several good museums in the Holborn area like The Tower of London, National Maritime Museum Greenwich, and Cutty Sark.

The Tower of London, Millenium Bridge, Sutton House and Breaker's Yard, and Osterley Park and House are great places to visit near Holborn if you like historic buildings.

The area around Holborn's best rivers and streams can be found at River Thames at London.

Don't miss Westfield London, Westfield Stratford City, Brent Cross Shopping Centre, and Whitgift Centre's shopping centres if visiting the area around Holborn.

Holborn has some unmissable towns nearby like Hendon, Greenwich, Croydon, Chislehurst, Enfield, and Isleworth.

Holborn has some unmissable country parks nearby like Fryent Country Park, South Norwood Country Park, Morden Hall Park, Bedfont Lakes Country Park, Scadbury Estate Country Park, Stanmore Country Park, and Whitewebbs Country Park.

There are a several good nature reserves in the area around Holborn like Morden Hall Park.

Don't miss Cutty Sark's historic monuments if visiting the area around Holborn.

London Biggin Hill Airport, Heathrow Airport, London City Airport, and London Heliport are great places to visit near Holborn if you like airports.

Stanmore Country Park is one of Holborn's best, nearby bluebell woods to visit in Holborn.

Holborn History

There are some historic monuments around Holborn:

• London Wall: remains of Roman wall and bastion, Goring Street
• London Wall: section of Roman and medieval wall and bastions, west and north of Monkwell Square
• A subterranean commercial ice-well (City of Westminster), Park Crescent West, W1
• Priory and Hospital of St Mary Spital
• Smiths' Wharf
• Stationers' Hall
• Huggin Hill Roman bath house, 120m WNW of St James's Church
• Roman governor's palace (site of)
• The Hope Playhouse, and the remains of three further bear gardens, Bankside
• Baynard's Castle, 78m south-west of St Benet Metropolitan Welsh Church
• Queenhithe dock
• Goldsmiths' Hall
• London Wall: section from underground railway to Tower Hill GUARDIANSHIP
• London Wall: section of Roman wall and Roman, medieval and post-medieval gateway at Aldersgate
• Roman wall in basement of 90 Gracechurch Street
• London Wall: section of Roman and medieval wall at St Alphage Garden, incorporating remains of St Alphage's Church
• Kensington Palace
• The Curtain Playhouse
• The Theatre Playhouse
• London Wall: section of Roman wall within the London Wall underground car park, 25m north of Austral House and 55m north west of Coleman Street
• Tower of London
• Structures of archaeological interest below Billingsgate Market
• Roman Bath House, Shadwell
• London Wall: section in Amen Court
• Remains of Roman and medieval wall and gateway W of boundary of Stationers' Hall to Ludgate Hill
• Painter Stainers' Hall
• London Wall: remains of Roman wall and conduit and medieval postern, Bloomfield House to site of Moor Gate
• London Wall: remains of Roman wall and bastion, Camomile Street
• Tower Hill West
• Dyers' Hall
• The Chapter House and Pyx Chamber in the abbey cloisters, Westminster Abbey
• London Wall: section of Roman wall and bastion beneath Crosswall, No. 1 America Square and Fenchurch Street railway station
• Apothecaries' Hall
• The Globe Theatre
• London Wall: section of Roman wall at the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey
• Remains of Winchester Palace, Clink Street and waterfront
• Parnell Road Bridge
• London Wall: remains of Roman fort wall and east gate under Aldermanbury
• London Wall: section of Roman and medieval wall and bastion at Noble Street
• Roman riverboat, 136m west of Greenwood Theatre
• The London Greyfriars, site of, Newgate Street, Farringdon
• Roman amphitheatre, Guildhall Yard
• London Wall: site of the Roman and medieval gateway of Cripple Gate
• Watermen's Hall
• Benedictine nunnery of St Mary, Clerkenwell
• Tudor naval storehouse at Convoys Wharf
• Fishmongers' Hall
• Tallow Chandlers' Hall
• London Wall: site of Newgate and 121-124 Newgate Street, remains of Roman and medieval wall, gateway and bastion
• Manor House moated site, East End Road, Finchley
• The Rose Theatre, Rose Court, Southwark
• London Wall: remains of Roman wall and bastion (4a) at Crutched Friars
• London Wall: the west gate of Cripplegate fort and a section of Roman wall in London Wall underground car park, adjacent to Noble Street
• London Wall: section bounding All Hallows Churchyard
• Site of the launch ways of the SS Great Eastern
• Innholders' Hall
• Monument
• Roman hypocaust and building on site of Coal Exchange
• Pottery kiln in Walmer Road
• Merchant Taylors' Hall
• The Jewel Tower
• Skinners' Hall
• Medieval moated manor house, 43m west of Cathay House
• Barnard's Inn Hall (Mercers' School)
• London Wall: remains of Roman and medieval wall from W end of All Hallows Church to 38 Camomile Street
• London Wall: remains of Roman wall, bastions and city gate of Aldgate from 17 Bevis Marks to India Street
• Inner Temple Hall Buttery
• Three Colt Bridge, Gunmaker's Lane
• Remains of St Pancras Church, Pancras Lane
• London Wall: remains of medieval and Roman wall extending 75yds (68m) N from Trinity Place to railway
• Abbey buildings, Bermondsey
• Romano-British bath house and medieval remains at 11-15 Borough High Street
• Vintners' Hall
• London Wall: section of Roman wall and medieval bastion in Postman's Park and King Edward Street
• Bell Barrow called Boadicea's Grave, 650m west of Millfield Cottage
• Armourers' and Brasiers' Hall
• Bonner Hall Bridge, Regent's Canal
• Pumping engine house for Brunel's Thames tunnel