Skinner Street

Skinner Street
   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.

A Dictionary of London. . 1918.

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