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138  L ONDON AREA B Y AREA

Street-by-Street: Lincoln’s Inn

This is calm, dignified, legal London, packed
1 . Sir John
with history and interest. Lincoln’s Inn, Soane’s Museum
adjoining one of the city’s first residential The Georgian architect
squares, has buildings dating back to the made this his London
late 15th century. Dark-suited lawyers carry home and left it, with his
bundles of briefs between their offices here collection, to the nation.
and the Neo-Gothic Law Courts. Nearby is
the Temple, another historic legal district,
with a famous 13th-century round church. L
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4 The Hunterian
5 Old Curiosity Shop Museum forms part of the
This is a rare 16th-century, Royal College of Surgeons,
pre-Great Fire building, designed in 1836 by Sir
which is now a shop. Charles Barry.

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The Gladstone Statue was
Twinings has been selling tea here erected in 1905 to commemorate
since 1706. The doorway dates from William Gladstone, the Victorian
1787 when the shop (216 Strand) statesman who served four terms
was called the Golden Lion. as prime minister.

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