Skinner Street

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

North-west from Giltspur Street to Farringdon Street, in Farringdon Ward Within (O.S. 1848-51).


First formed in 1802 on the line of the present Holborn Viaduct to avoid the steep and winding ascent of Snow Hill.

It seems never to have been a flourishing thoroughfare and was removed for the formation of Holborn Viaduct, 1867

Named after Alderman Skinner, who inaugurated the scheme.

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