ORPINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY
In September a group from the Orpington Historical Society visited Clerkenwell for a 2/3 mile walk around this very historic area.
The walk took in numerous locations starting at Farringdon Station the city terminus of the worlds first underground railway, the Old Middlesex Sessions House, the Clerks Well from which the area takes it's name, sites of three notorious prisons, the remains of Spa Fields a centuries old meeting place in times of unrest, St John's Gate, Great & Lesser St Bartholomew's Churches, St Bartholomew's Hospital Museum returning to Farringdon Station passing on route The Castle public house which is also a pawnbrokers, the only one of it's kind on England.
Lunch was taken at the Sekforde Arms which left the group suitably refreshed and ready for the second part of the walk.
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