Strand, Holborn and Clerkenwell
The area covered in this section - STRAND , HOLBORN and CLERKENWELL - lies on the periphery of the entertainment zone of the West End and the financial district of the City. The Strand , as its name suggests, once lay along the riverbank: it achieved its present-day form when the Victorians shored up the banks of the Thames to create the Embankment. Holborn (pronounced "Ho-burn"), to the northeast, has long been associated with the law, and its Inns of Court make for an interesting stroll, their archaic, cobbled precincts exuding the rarefied atmosphere of an Oxbridge college, and sheltering one of the city's oldest churches, the twelfth-century Temple Church . Close by the Inns, in Lincoln's Inn Fields, is the Sir John Soane's Museum , one of the most memorable and enjoyable of London's small museums, packed with architectural illusions and an eclectic array of curios. Clerkenwell , further to the northeast, is off the tourist trail, but has a host of unusual sights, including vestiges of two pre-Fire of London priories, an old prison house and the Marx Memorial Library , where the exiled Lenin plotted revolution.
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