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High Holborn
Greater London, London
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90 places within 15 miles
Days out & attractions in High Holborn
Days out around High Holborn – museums, parks, monuments, galleries and more, including 11 in High Holborn itself. Each comes with a description, photo, address and map where available.
Days out
🏛️ Museums
Charles Dickens Museum
Mount Pleasant · 0.1 miles
The Postal Museum
Mount Pleasant · 0.6 miles
British Library Exhibition Space
King's Cross · 0.6 miles
Euston Road 96, London
Jan-Dec: Mo, We-Fr 10:00-18:00; Jan-Dec: Tu 10:00-20:00; Sa 11:00-17:00; Su, PH off
British Museum
St Giles · 0.6 miles
Wellcome Collection
Euston · 0.6 miles
London Canal Museum
King's Cross · 0.6 miles
New Wharf Road 12-13, London N1 9RT
Tu-Su 10:00-16:30; PH Mo 10:00-16:30; Dec 23-Jan 01 Off
Days out
🌳 Parks & gardens
Regent Square Gardens
High Holborn · 0.1 miles
A public garden set within the historic Regent Square provides a green focal point in the St Pancras area of north-central London. The square lies close to High Holborn, Kings Cross and Bloomsbury and has been part of the London Borough of Camden since the mid-1960s. The garden was laid out around a large central lawn in the Harrison Estate and first occupied in 1829, echoing the garden-square pattern typical of Bloomsbury’s better-known developments. The southern side of the square retains its original early-nineteenth-century façades, which are collectively protected as a Grade II-listed group, and a traditional red telephone box situated within the gardens also carries a listed status. The site once accommodated two churches – the National Scotch Church, built between 1824 and 1827 and later an English Presbyterian congregation, and St Peter’s Church of the Church of England. Both structures were destroyed by wartime bombing and removed after the Second World War, leaving the surrounding architecture and the garden as the principal features. The park is managed by the London Borough of Camden and remains freely accessible to the public. Entry is from the surrounding streets, with the nearest reference point being High Holborn. No admission fee is required, and the space is open for typical park activities such as walking, casual recreation and appreciation of the listed surroundings.
Source: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
Cartwright Gardens
High Holborn · 0.1 miles
A crescent-shaped green space set within Bloomsbury offers a quiet alternative to the surrounding streets, with the nearest main thoroughfare being High Holborn. Managed by the London Borough of Camden, the park is open to the public and is bounded by iron railings that enclose mature plane trees, grassed areas and a network of circular walks. A bronze statue by George Clarke, dating from 1831, stands on a granite plinth that records the reform work of John Cartwright, after whom the gardens were renamed in 1908. Unusually for a central London garden, several tennis courts are available for residents of the surrounding buildings and hotels. The surrounding crescent was originally laid out between 1809 and 1811 as Burton Crescent, part of the Skinners’ Company Estate designed by James Burton. Early occupants included a number of prominent 19th-century figures such as social reformer Edwin Chadwick, postal reformer Rowland Hill and writer Sydney Smith. The east side of the gardens was largely demolished in the early 20th century; an Art Deco block, Canterbury Hall, was erected in the 1930s and later incorporated into University of London inter-collegiate halls, including Commonwealth Hall in the 1950s and Hughes Parry Hall in 1969. Those structures gave way to the Garden Halls built between 2014 and 2016, although the tower block of Hughes Parry Hall remains. Several of the Georgian houses, numbered 27-43 and 46-63, retain Grade II listed status, preserving the architectural character of the original development.
Source: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
Days out
🗿 Monuments & memorials
Jeremy Bentham Auto-icon
Euston · 0.6 miles
Jeremy Bentham's mummified body, clothed and on display. The head is wax - the real mummified head is in the UCL collection.
The Lion of Knidos
St Giles · 0.6 miles
A marble lion, larger than life and weighing six tonnes, stands on a plinth beneath the roof of the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court, forming part of the British Museum’s collection. Carved from the same Pentelic marble that built the Parthenon, the recumbent figure measures 2.89 metres in length and 1.82 metres in height; only its lower jaw and front legs are absent, and the eyes were probably once set with glass inlays. The statue originally topped a square funerary monument with a stepped pyramidal top, a form that has prompted scholarly debate over its date, ranging from the mid-fourth century BC to the second-century BC, with the museum currently estimating a creation period of 200–250 BC. The lion was first observed by the archaeologist Richard Popplewell Pullan in 1858 while he assisted Charles Thomas Newton in excavations near the ancient port of Knidos, now close to Datça in Turkey. After the monument collapsed, the marble lion was recovered, transported along the coast and loaded onto HMS Supply by Robert Murdoch Smith before being shipped to London. Since 2000 it has been displayed prominently in the museum’s Great Court. In 2008 the Turkish town of Datça lodged a formal request with the British Ministry of Culture and Tourism for the statue’s return. The monument is listed in OpenStreetMap as a historic feature near the St Giles area of London.
Source: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
Memorial Pole (pts'aan) for Chief Luuya'as Eagle-Beaver Clan of the Nisga'a Nation
Bloomsbury · 0.6 miles
Days out
🖼️ Galleries
Maria Stenfors
Mount Pleasant · 0.6 miles
Wren Street 21, London WC1X 0HF
Gagosian
King's Cross · 0.6 miles
Britannia Street 6-24, London WC1X 9JD
Laura Bartlett Gallery
Gray's Inn · 0.6 miles
Northington Street 10, London WC1N 2JG
Eagle Gallery
Clerkenwell · 0.6 miles
Farringdon Road 159, London EC1R 3AL
Days out
📸 Landmarks & sights
IFO (Identified Flying Object)
King's Cross · 0.6 miles
playground swing in a giant birdcage (lights up at night)
British Library
King's Cross · 0.6 miles
Euston Road 96, London NW1 2DB
Mo-Th 09:30-20:00; Sa 09:30-17:00; Su 11:00-17:00; Fr 09:30-18:00
Days out
🛝 Playgrounds
Data: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Distances are as the crow flies from High Holborn.
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