Little Turnstile, WC2A

Road in/near Holborn

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Little Turnstile is one of the streets of London in the WC1V postal area.






NEARBY LOCATIONS OF NOTE
British Museum British Museum was a station on the Central line, located in Holborn and taking its name from the nearby British Museum in Great Russell Street.
Houghton Street (1906) A greengrocer’s on the corner of Houghton Street and Clare Market (behind The Strand) in 1906 just before demolition.
Lisle’s Tennis Court Lisle’s Tennis Court was a building off Portugal Street in Lincoln’s Inn Fields in London.
Old and New London: Temple Bar Temple Bar was rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren, in 1670–72.
St Giles St Giles is a district of central London, at the southern tip of the London Borough of Camden.
Staple Inn Staple Inn is London’s only surviving sixteenth-century domestic building, situated on the south side of High Holborn.
Temple Bar Temple Bar is the point in London where Fleet Street, City of London, becomes the Strand, Westminster, and where the City of London traditionally erected a barrier to regulate trade into the city.
The 1860s map of London "Stanford’s Library Map of London and its Suburbs" was published in 1862
Weston’s Music Hall Weston’s Music Hall was a music hall and theatre that opened in 1857. In 1906, the theatre became known as the Holborn Empire.

NEARBY STREETS
Africa House, WC2A Residential block (Holborn)
Africa House, WC2B Africa House is a block on Kingsway
Aldwych House, WC2B Aldwych House is located on Aldwych (Aldwych)
Alliance House, WC1V Alliance House is a building on High Holborn (Chancery Lane)
Andrews Crosse, EC4A Andrews Crosse stood on the site of the courtyard of the former Andrews Crosse Inn (City of London)
Arab Press House, WC1V Arab Press House is located on High Holborn
Aria House, WC1V Aria House is located on Newton Street
Arne Street, WC2E Arne Street was named after the 18th century composer Thomas Arne, who was born near here (Covent Garden)
Artist House, WC1A Artist House is sited on Little Russell Street (Holborn)
Atkin Building, WC1R Atkin Building is a block on Jockey’s Fields (Holborn)
Aviation House, WC2B Aviation House is a building on Kingsway (Holborn)
Barclay House, WC1N Barclay House is a building on Queen Square (Bloomsbury)
Barter Street, WC1A Barter Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area (Holborn)
Beacon House, WC2B Beacon House is a block on Kingsway
Beaumont Buildings, WC2B Beaumont Buildings is located on Martlett Court (Covent Garden)
Bedford Place, WC1B Bedford Place is one of the streets of London in the WC1B postal area (Bloomsbury)
Bedford Row, WC1R Bedford Row runs between Theobalds Road and Sandland Street (Holborn)
Bell Yard, EC4A Bell Yard is a small lane off the Strand where the Bell hostel once stood (City of London)
Betterton House, WC2H Betterton House is located on Betterton Street (Covent Garden)
Betterton Street, WC2E Betterton Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area (Covent Garden)
Bishop’s Court, WC2A Bishop’s Court lies off Chancery Lane (Chancery Lane)
Bloomsbury Place, WC1B The name of Bloomsbury Place is derived from William Blemund (Holborn)
Bloomsbury Square, WC1A The 4th Earl of Southampton was granted a building license for the construction of Bloomsbury Square in 1661 (Holborn)
Bloomsbury Street, WC1A Bloomsbury Street runs from Gower Street in the north to the junction of New Oxford Street and Shaftesbury Avenue in the south (Bloomsbury)
Bloomsbury Way, WC1V Bloomsbury Way - the name Bloomsbury is first noted in 1201, when Norman landowner William de Blemond acquired the land (Holborn)
Boswell Street, WC1N Boswell Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1N postal area (Bloomsbury)
Bristol House, WC1B Residential block (Holborn)
Broad Court, WC2E Broad Court is an alleyway parallel with Long Acre (Covent Garden)
Bruce House, WC2B Bruce House is sited on Kemble Street (Covent Garden)
Bury Place, WC1A Bury Place is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area (Bloomsbury)
Carey Street, WC2A Carey Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area (Aldwych)
Catton Street, WC2B Catton Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1R postal area (Holborn)
Chancery House, WC2A Chancery House is a block on Chancery Lane (Chancery Lane)
Chancery Lane, WC2A Chancery Lane has formed the western boundary of the City of London since 1994, having previously been divided between the London boroughs of Westminster and Camden (City of London)
Chancery Station House, WC1V Chancery Station House is a building on High Holborn (Chancery Lane)
Chichester Rents, WC2A Chichester Rents is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area (Westminster)
Churchill House, WC1R Churchill House is located on Red Lion Square (Holborn)
Clare Market, WC2A Clare Market is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area (Aldwych)
Clement’s Inn, WC2R Clement’s Inn is a road in the WC2R postcode area (Aldwych)
Clements Inn Passage, WC2A Clements Inn Passage - also know as St Clement’s Passage - is a narrow connecting street (Aldwych)
Columbia House, WC2B Columbia House is a block on Aldwych (Aldwych)
Commonwealth House, WC1V Commonwealth House is a block on New Oxford Street
Connaught House, WC2A Connaught House can be found on Aldwych (Aldwych)
Coptic Street, WC2H Coptic Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area (Holborn)
Cosmo Place, WC1B Cosmo Place is a road in the WC1B postcode area (Bloomsbury)
Cowdray House, WC2A Cowdray House is a building on Portugal Street (Aldwych)
Cross Court, WC2B Cross Court appears on maps between the 1750s and 1900 (Covent Garden)
Crown Court, WC2E Crown Court is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area (Covent Garden)
Crystal Wharf, WC2B A street within the WC2B postcode (Aldwych)
Dane Street, WC1R Dane Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1R postal area (Holborn)
Dog and Duck Yard, WC1R Dog and Duck Yard lay off Princeton Street (Holborn)
Dombey Street, WC1N Dombey Street is a road in the WC1N postcode area (Bloomsbury)
Drury Lane, WC2B Named from Sir William Drury, Knight of the Garter in Queen Elizabeth’s reign, who owned land on its site (Covent Garden)
Dryden Street, WC2B Dryden Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2E postal area (Covent Garden)
Dudley Court, WC2H Dudley Court is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area (Covent Garden)
Duke’s Court, WC2B Duke’s Court appears on maps made between 1750 and 1900 (Covent Garden)
Eagle Street, WC1R Eagle Street runs parallel to High Holborn, one block north (Holborn)
Emerald Street, WC1N Emerald Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1N postal area (Bloomsbury)
Endell Street, WC2H Endell Street, originally known as Belton Street, is a street that runs from High Holborn in the north to Long Acre and Bow Street in the south (Covent Garden)
Field Court, WC1R Field Court is one of the streets of London in the WC1R postal area (Holborn)
First Avenue House, WC1V First Avenue House is a block on High Holborn (Holborn)
Fisher Street, WC1R Fisher Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1R postal area (Holborn)
Fletcher Buildings, WC2B Fletcher Buildings is sited on Martlett Court (Covent Garden)
Fulwood Place, WC1R Fulwood Place is one of the streets of London in the WC1V postal area (Chancery Lane)
Galen Place, WC1A Galen Place is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area (Bloomsbury)
Gate Street, WC2A Gate Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area
Gilbert Place, WC1A Gilbert Place is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area (Bloomsbury)
Gloucester Road, WC1N Gloucester Road is one of the streets of London in the WC1N postal area (Bloomsbury)
Grape Street, WC2H Grape Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area
Grays Inn Place, WC1R Grays Inn Place is one of the streets of London in the WC1R postal area (Holborn)
Grays Inn Square Chambers, WC1R Grays Inn Square Chambers is one of the streets of London in the WC1R postal area (Holborn)
Grays Inn Square, WC1R Grays Inn Square is one of the streets of London in the WC1R postal area (Holborn)
Great James Street, WC1N Great James Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1N postal area (Bloomsbury)
Great Queen Street, WC2B Great Queen Street is a continuation of Long Acre from Drury Lane to Kingsway.
Great Russell Street, WC1A Great Russell Street commemorates the marriage of the daughter of the 4th Earl of Southampton to William Russell in 1669 (Bloomsbury)
Great Turnstile, WC1V This is a street in the WC1V postcode area (Holborn)
Green Dragon House, WC2B Green Dragon House is a block on Stukeley Street
Griffin Building, WC1X Griffin Building is a block on Theobalds Road (Farringdon)
Hand Court, WC1R Hand Court is one of the streets of London in the WC1V postal area (Holborn)
Hardwicke Building, WC2A Hardwicke Building is a block on Hardwicke Building
Harpur Mews, WC1R Harpur Mews was originally the stabling for houses in Harpur Street (Bloomsbury)
Harpur Street, WC1R There are two theories about the naming of Harpur Street (Bloomsbury)
High Holborn, WC1V High Holborn was part of the old road from Newgate and the Tower to the gallows at Tyburn. (Holborn)
High Holborn, WC2B High Holborn is a road which is the highest point in the City of London - 22 metres above sea level
Holborn Tower, WC1V Holborn Tower is a building on High Holborn (Holborn)
Houghton Square, WC2B Houghton Square is a road in the SW9 postcode area (Aldwych)
Houghton Street, WC2A Houghton Street is a street which has been ’demoted’ over time (Aldwych)
Imperial House, WC2B Imperial House is a block on Kingsway (Aldwych)
Jockeys Fields, WC1R Jockeys Fields is one of the streets of London in the WC1R postal area (Holborn)
Kean Street, WC2B Kean Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area (Aldwych)
Keeley Street, WC2B Keeley Street has a dual history (Covent Garden)
Kemble Street, WC2B Kemble Street is a road in the WC2B postcode area (Covent Garden)
Kings Head Yard, WC2H Kings Head Yard ran off Short’s Gardens (Covent Garden)
Kingsgate Est, WC1B A street within the WC1B postcode (Bloomsbury)
Kingsgate Street, WC1R Kingsgate Street ran from High Holborn to Theobald’s Road (Holborn)
Kingsway, WC2A Kingsway is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area (Westminster)
Lacon House, WC1X Lacon House is a block on Theobald’s Road (Bloomsbury)
Lakatos Building, WC2A Lakatos Building is a block on Portugal Street (Aldwych)
Lamb’s Conduit Passage, WC1R This is a street in the WC1R postcode area (Holborn)
Lincoln’s Inn Fields, WC2A Lincoln’s Inn Fields is the largest public square in London, laid out in the 1630s under the initiative of the speculative builder William Newton (Westminster)
Lion Court, WC1R Lion Court is one of the streets of London in the WC1V postal area (Holborn)
Lion House, WC1V Lion House is a block on Red Lion Street (Holborn)
Lionel Robbins Building, WC2A Lionel Robbins Building is sited on Portugal Street (Aldwych)
Little Russel Street, WC1A Little Russel Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area (Bloomsbury)
Little Russell Street, WC1A Little Russell Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area (Bloomsbury)
Little Turnstile, WC2A Little Turnstile is one of the streets of London in the WC1V postal area (Holborn)
London Silver Vaults, WC1V London Silver Vaults is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area (Chancery Lane)
Macklin Street, WC2B Macklin Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area
Martlett Court, WC2B Martlett Court appears on maps from the 1750s onwards (Covent Garden)
Monmouth Street, WC2H Monmouth Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area (Covent Garden)
Montague Street, WC1B Montague Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1B postal area (Bloomsbury)
Museum House, WC1A Museum House is a block on Museum Street (Holborn)
Museum Street, WC1A Museum Street is so-named since it approaches the main entrance of the British Museum. (Holborn)
Napier House, WC1V Napier House is a block on High Holborn (Chancery Lane)
Neal Street, WC2H Neal Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area (Covent Garden)
Neal’s Yard, WC2H Neals Yard is one of the most photographed places of London (Covent Garden)
New Academic Building, WC2A New Academic Building is located on Lincoln’s Inn Fields (Westminster)
New North Street, WC1N New North Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1N postal area (Bloomsbury)
New Oxford Street, WC1A New Oxford Street was built in 1840 to ease congestion in St Giles High Street (Holborn)
New Oxford Street, WC2H New Oxford Street is a road in the WC2H postcode area (Holborn)
New Penderel House, WC1V New Penderel House is a block on High Holborn (Holborn)
New Square Passage, WC2A This is a street in the WC2A postcode area
New Square, WC2A New Square is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area
Newton Street, WC1V Newton Street is named for Isaac Newton, scientist and mathematician
Nottingham Court, WC2H Nottingham Court is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area (Covent Garden)
Odhams Walk, WC2H Odhams Walk is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area (Covent Garden)
Old Building, WC2A Old Building is a building on Houghton Street (Aldwych)
Old Buildings, WC2A Old Buildings lies off Old Square
Old Glocester Street, WC1N Old Glocester Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1N postal area (Bloomsbury)
Old Gloucester Street, WC1N Old Gloucester Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1N postal area (Bloomsbury)
Old Glouster Street, WC1N Old Glouster Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1N postal area (Bloomsbury)
Old Square, WC2A Old Square gained this name after the building of New Square in 1682.
Orange Street, WC1R Orange Street disappeared from the map to be replaced by St Martin’s College of Art (now Central Saint Martins) (Holborn)
Ormond Close, WC1N Ormond Close is a road in the WC1N postcode area (Bloomsbury)
Ormond Mews Ormond Mews - also Ormond Yard - was made up of two extensive rows of mews and was situated just south of Great Ormond Street. (Bloomsbury)
Parker Mews, WC2B Parker Mews is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area
Parker Street, WC2B Parker Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area
Parker Tower, WC2B Parker Tower is a block on Parker Street
Pied Bull Court, WC1A Pied Bull Court is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area (Bloomsbury)
Pied Bull Yard, WC1A Pied Bull Yard is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area (Holborn)
Portpool Lane, EC1N Portpool Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC1N postal area (Farringdon)
Portsmouth Street, WC2A Portsmouth Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area (Aldwych)
Portugal Street, WC2A Portugal Street was named in honour of Charles II’s Portuguese queen Catherine of Braganza (Aldwych)
Princeton Street, WC1R Princeton Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1R postal area (Holborn)
Procter Street, WC1V Procter Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1V postal area (Holborn)
Proctor Street, WC1V Proctor Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1V postal area (Holborn)
Quality Court, WC2A Quality Court is a courtyard, built around 1700 (Chancery Lane)
Queen Square, WC1N Queen Square was laid out by speculator Nicholas Barbon (Bloomsbury)
Queen’s Building, WC2R Queen’s Building is sited on Grange Court (Aldwych)
Queens House, WC2A Queens House is a block on Lincoln’s Inn Fields (Westminster)
Raymond Buildings, WC1R Raymond Buildings is one of the streets of London in the WC1R postal area (Holborn)
Red Lion Square, WC1R Red Lion Square was built from the late 1680s by speculator Nicholas Barbon (Holborn)
Red Lion Street, WC1R Red Lion Street connects High Holborn with Theobalds Road (Holborn)
Richbell Place, WC1N Richbell Place is one of the streets of London in the WC1N postal area (Bloomsbury)
Rolls Passage, WC2A Rolls Passage is one of the streets of London in the EC4A postal area (City of London)
Ruskin House, WC1A Ruskin House is a block on Museum Street (Holborn)
Sandland Street, WC1R Sandland Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1R postal area (Holborn)
Sardinia House, WC2A Sardinia House can be found on Lincoln’s Inn Fields (Aldwych)
Sardinia Street, WC2A Sardinia Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area (Westminster)
Sardinia Street, WC2B Sardinia Street, formerly Duke Street, was a street that ran from Prince’s Street in the south to the western side of Lincoln’s Inn Fields in the north. (Aldwych)
Serle Street, WC2A Serle Street is a road in the WC2A postcode area
Seven Dials, WC2H Seven Dials was built on the site of the Cock-and-Pie Fields, named for a nearby inn (Covent Garden)
Sheffield Street, WC2A Sheffield Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area (Aldwych)
Shelton Street, WC2E Shelton Street is a road in the WC2B postcode area (Covent Garden)
Shelton Street, WC2H Shelton Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area (Covent Garden)
Sheridan Buildings, WC2B Sheridan Buildings is a block on Martlett Court (Covent Garden)
Shorts Gardens, WC2H Shorts Gardens is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area (Covent Garden)
Sicilian Avenue, WC1V Sicilian Avenue is a shopping parade that diagonally runs in between Southampton Row and Bloomsbury Way (Holborn)
Silver Vaults, WC1V Silver Vaults is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area (Chancery Lane)
South Square, WC1X South Square is one of the streets of London in the WC1R postal area (Chancery Lane)
Southampton Buildings, WC2A Southampton Buildings marks the site of the house of the 4th Earl of Southampton, son of Shakespeare’s patron. (Chancery Lane)
Southampton Place, WC1A Southampton Place is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area (Holborn)
Southampton Row, WC1B Southampton Row is one of the streets of London in the WC1B postal area (Holborn)
Southampton Row, WC1V Southampton Row is a road in the WC1V postcode area (Holborn)
St Clement’s Building, WC2A St Clement’s Building is a block on Clare Market (Aldwych)
St Clements Lane, WC2A St Clements Lane has also been known as Clements Lane (Aldwych)
St George’s House, WC1A St George’s House is a block on Coptic Street (Holborn)
St Giles High Street, WC2H St Giles High Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area (St Giles)
St Giles House, WC2B Residential block (Covent Garden)
Staple Inn Buildings, WC1V Staple Inn Buildings is part of historic Staple Inn (City of London)
Staple Inn Buildings, WC1X Staple Inn Buildings is one of the streets of London in the WC1V postal area (City of London)
Star Yard, WC2A Star Yard is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area (Westminster)
Stedham Place, WC2H Stedham Place is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area (Holborn)
Stone Buildings, WC2A Stone Buildings is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area (Chancery Lane)
Strand, EC4Y A small section of Strand lies beyond Temple Bar in the City of London (City of London)
Stukeley Street, WC2B Stukeley Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area
Summit House, WC1R Summit House is a block on Red Lion Square (Holborn)
Swan House, WC1V Swan House is a block on High Holborn (Chancery Lane)
The Arcade, WC2B The Arcade is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area (Covent Garden)
Theobald’s Road, WC1N Theobald’s Road is a road in the WC1R postcode area (Holborn)
Theobalds Road, WC1N Theobalds Road is one of the streets of London in the WC1X postal area (Holborn)
Thomas More Building, WC2A Thomas More Building is a building on Strand (Aldwych)
Thomas Neal Centre, WC2H Thomas Neal Centre is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area (Covent Garden)
Twining Street, WC2A Gilbert Street was renamed Twining Street after 1895 (Aldwych)
Tybalds Close, WC1N Tybalds Close is a location in London (Bloomsbury)
Vere Street, WC2B Vere Street was a street in the Lincoln’s Inn Fields area (Aldwych)
Verulam Buildings, WC1R Verulam Buildings is one of the streets of London in the WC1R postal area (Holborn)
Verulam Street, WC1X Verulam Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1X postal area (Farringdon)
Victoria House, WC1B Victoria House is a block on Southampton Row (Holborn)
Warwick Court, WC1V Warwick Court runs north from High Holborn (Holborn)
Waterman House, WC2B Waterman House is sited on Kingsway (Aldwych)
West Central Street, WC2H West Central Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area
Weston House, WC1V Weston House is located on High Holborn (Holborn)
Whetstone Park, WC2A Whetstone Park is a road in the WC2A postcode area (Holborn)
Wild Court, WC2B Wild Court leads west from the Kingsway
Wild Street, WC2B Wild Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area (Covent Garden)
William Sinkins House, WC2A William Sinkins House is a block on Carey Street (Westminster)
Willoughby Street, WC1B Willoughby Street was formerly known as both Vine Street and Wooburn Street (Holborn)
Yorkshire Grey Yard, WC1V Yorkshire Grey Yard lies off of Eagle Street, WC1 (Holborn)


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