Traditionally the area of journalists and lawyers. There are several buildings prior to the Great Fire (Staple Inn, Prince Henry's Room and indoor Middle Temple Hall)
Sites to visit:
- Sir John Soane's Museum (son of a bricklayer, he became one of the main British architects of the 19th century
- Lincoln's Inn
- Lincoln's Inn Fields
- Old Curiosity Shop (it might have given its name to Dicken's novel; 17th century building and the oldest shop in central London. It survived the Great Fire)
- Law Society (architectural interesting building)
- Saint Clement Danes Church (there is a big chain hanging from the wall to stop people opening the tombs and stealing dead bodies to be sold in hospitals and be used in medicine lessons in old times)
- Royal Courts of Justice
- Temple Bar Memorial (It marks the entrance to The City; in ceremonies the King stops in front of it and asks the Town Hall Mayor for permission to go into the City.
- Fleet Street (here one found the first printer in England; Shakespeare and Ben Johnson -again the writer, not the athlete- were customers in Old Mitre Tavern)
- Prince Henry's Room
- Temple
- Saint Bride's (One of Wren's; many journalists and printers buried in it; the cript contains remains of previous temples and a fragment of a Roman road)
- Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese (clients of this tavern: Samuel Pepys -the journalist of the Great Fire-, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens)
- Dr. Johnson's House
- Saint Andrew Church
- Holborn Viaduct
- Saint Etheldreda's Chapel
- Hatton Garden (street of diamonds and jewelry)
- Staple Inn
- London Silver Vaults
- Gray's Inn (Shakespeare and Charles Dickens)
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