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Turnstile, The (Holborn)

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  • N Pedro on Fri 23 Feb 2007, 09:37pm

    ” Turnstile”

    Naming of London Streets

    The Great and Little Turnstiles were originally closed by revolving barriers, in order to keep the cattle pastured in Lincoln’s Inn Fields from straying into Holborn.

    (From the Book of Days)

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