If, like Dr Johnson, you
enjoy anecdotes and secret histories, do take the opportunity
to explore this unique part of the City Fringe in central
London.
 Start
with the Dragons, outside Chancery Lane station,
which marks the position of the barriers that were the outer
gates of the City of London at Holborn Bars, in 1222.
High Holborn was a Roman road and later became a
route for criminals who were convicted in the City courts
and taken by tumbrel to the present site of CenterPoint
at Tottenham Court Road.
Nathaniel
Hawthorne visited England in the 1850s and wrote about
the ‘quiet green spaces and the peaceful atmosphere
of the Inns of Court. Visit nearby Gray's Inn and
the Staple Inn to see that these secluded places still exist
today.
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