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Clerkenwell Green

No grass for three hundred years, but a spire at one end and a Georgian pub at the other.

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The Crown Tavern and St James's spire, on a summer evening.

A green in name only since the eighteenth century, and the meeting place of choice for London radicals for most of the time since: the Chartists gathered here, and the Marx Memorial Library still occupies a Welsh charity school building of 1738 on the north side, where Lenin edited Iskra in a back room in 1902. St James's Clerkenwell closes the east end with a thin spire, the Crown Tavern faces it across the setts, and the whole thing is small enough to cross in twenty paces.

Where
Clerkenwell Green, EC1R
Nearest station
Farringdon · 4 min walk

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