High Holborn (/ˈhoʊbərn/HOH-bərn) is a road in Holborn, central London, which forms part of the A40. It starts in the west as a turn off Charing Cross Road, near St Giles Circus, and runs past the Kingsway and Southampton Row, and becomes Holborn at its eastern junction with Gray's Inn Road.
The nearest London Underground stations are Tottenham Court Road, Holborn, and Chancery Lane, all on the Central line which runs beneath High Holborn.
The street is mentioned in Adrian Mitchell's poem Celia, Celia:
When I am sad and weary
When I think all hope has gone
When I walk along High Holborn
I think of you with nothing on
The street is depicted on Christmas 1883 in one of the segments of the 2005 Doctor Who on-line adventure game, "Attack of the Graske". The street is not named win the game; rather, a birds-eye view zooms down into the street in front of what is now the Chancery Court Hotel at No. 252.
Famous quotes containing the word high:
“It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy’s edge. But in the process, we have lost the human element; not to mention the high hope of those quaint days when flight would create “one world.” Instead of one world, we have “star wars,” and a future in which dumb dented human toys will drift mindlessly about the cosmos long after our small planet’s dead.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)