Before Clerkenwell became a built-up area, it had a reputation as a resort a short walk out of the city, where Londoners could disport themselves at its spas, of which there were several, based on natural chalybeate springs, tea gardens and theatres.

Farringdon station, which provides both mainline rail and tube services, is the only station in Clerkenwell itself.

Soon after his appointment, the office and its stores were transferred to a dissolved Dominican monastery at Blackfriars, having previously been housed at Warwick Inn in the city, the London Charterhouse, and then at the priory of St. John of Jerusalem in Clerkenwell, to which a return was made after Cawarden's death.

Among the cases on which he reported was the Clerkenwell bombing by the Fenians in 1867.

In response, de Castelain and Currie were allowed by the so-called Chevalier de Sainte-Croix to form the Council of the English Langue, which was inaugurated on 12 January 1831, under the executive power of a man who called himself " Count " Alexander Mortara, and headquartered at the " Auberge of St. John, St. John's Gate, St. John's Square, Clerkenwell ".

Aldersgate was a gate in the London Wall in the City of London, which has given its name to a ward and Aldersgate Street, a road leading north from the site of the gate, towards Clerkenwell in the London Borough of Islington.

When in hiding he frequented a house in Clerkenwell near Saffron Hill, known as the ‘ Old House in West Street ,’ which was noted for its dark closets, trap-doors, and sliding panels, and had often formed the asylum of Jonathan Wild and Jack Sheppard.

He founded seven almshouses in Woodbridge in 1586 which he endowed with an income of £ 112 13s 4d (£ 112. 66p ) per year from land in Clerkenwell, Middlesex.

The corner itself was in the parish of Clerkenwell which was part of the Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury until it was merged with the Metropolitan Borough of Islington to form the London Borough of Islington in 1965.

In November 1629, the theater hosted visiting French actors who had earlier played at the Fortune and Blackfriars Theatre ; a contemporary reference may indicate that this troupe, which included women, was poorly received in Clerkenwell.

The seat covers the southern part of the London Borough of Islington, including Barnsbury, Canonbury, parts of Holloway and Kings Cross and the former area of the Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury, which includes Bunhill, Pentonville and Clerkenwell.

* The opening scenes show the house as being on Benjamin Street, which is in EC1 in Clerkenwell.

It occupied an historic building in St. John Street formerly known as Crosskeys House and Cross-Keys Inn, which has in the past been the headquarters of the Communist Party of Great Britain and was an inn and coach house to the village of Clerkenwell for several hundred years.

The Monastic Order of the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem had its English headquarters at the Priory of Clerkenwell.

The name is something of a historical relic — Clerkenwell Green has had no grass for over 300 years.

Born in Clerkenwell in London, Wilkes was the second son of the distiller Israel Wilkes and his wife Sarah ( née Heaton ), who had six children.

According to writings of the period, Thomas Heywood had been living in Clerkenwell since 1623 and it was there, at St. James's Church that he was buried eighteen years later.

This was the " Old Jerusalem Tavern ", a now defunct public house occupying what had once been the gatehouse to the ancient Clerkenwell Priory, the mediæval Grand Priory of the Knights Hospitaller, otherwise known as the Knights of Saint John.

The borough replaced local government structures created by the Metropolis Management Act 1855: Clerkenwell and St Luke's had previously been administered by separate parish vestries ; the extra-parochial Liberty of Glasshouse Yard and St Sepulchre had formed part of the Holborn District Board of Works ; Charterhouse, also extra-parochial, had no vestry.

The building was built as the headquarters of Clerkenwell Vestry, and had been officially opened on 14 June 1895 by Lord Rosebery, the Prime Minister.

Here they had several meetings with Henry II initially at Reading, afterwards at London ( consecrating the church at the new Hospitallers ' priory and headquarters at Clerkenwell ).

On 19 May, Wild again had Sheppard arrested for pickpocketing, and this time he was put in St. Ann's Roundhouse in Soho, where he was visited by Elizabeth " Edgworth Bess " Lyon the next day ; she too was locked up with him, and, being recognized as man and wife, they were sent to the New Prison at Clerkenwell.

Thomas married Elizabeth Washington in September 1632 at St James's Church, Clerkenwell and they had a daughter named Anne Rolfe in 1633.

Habeas Corpus had been suspended in 1794, and Despard was held without trial for nearly three years in a succession of prisons, notably Coldbath Fields Prison in Clerkenwell, until he was released without charge in 1801.

Although he had two sons and a daughter, they did not enter the business, so Breguet took on noted English watchmaker Edward Brown of Clerkenwell to look after the Paris factory.

By his second wife he had, among other children, a son Francis, born about 1630, who inherited the Kippington estate, Sevenoaks, and was a widower on 26 January 1663, when he obtained a license to marry Mrs. Judith Nicholl of St. James, Clerkenwell.

Clerkenwell Green has historically been associated with radicalism, from the Lollards in the 16th century, the Chartists in the 19th century and communists in the early 20th century.

He was the only police constable to have been killed in a riot in Britain since Robert Culley was stabbed to death in Clerkenwell, central London, in 1833.

Many wells were built along its banks, and some on springs ( Bagnigge Well, Clerkenwell ) and St Bride's Well, were reputed to have healing qualities ; in the 13th century the river was called River of Wells.

* The Red Bull Theatre is built in Clerkenwell, London.

Sekforde Street in Clerkenwell, London, is built on land once owned by Seckford and is named for him.

It was constructed in 1604 on St John Street in Clerkenwell ; court documents reveal that it was built by renovating an inn with a central square.

Sir Hugh Myddleton, a Welsh goldsmith and philanthropist, was given the responsibility, and in 1609 he built a canal from the Hertfordshire rivers of Chadwell and Amwell, 38 miles to the New River Head Reservoir at Amwell Street in Clerkenwell.

He spent time in England ( John of England knighted him at Clerkenwell Priory in 1213 ) before succeeding to the kingdom on the death of his father on 4 December 1214, being crowned at Scone on 6 December the same year.

It is said that Vladimir Lenin and a young Joseph Stalin met in the Crown and Anchor pub ( now known as The Crown Tavern ) on Clerkenwell Green when the latter was visiting London in 1903.

Oliver Cromwell owned a house on Clerkenwell Close, just off the Green.

Indeed, Dickens knew the area well and was a customer of the Finsbury Savings Bank on Sekforde Street, a street linking Clerkenwell Green to St John Street.

At that time Vladimir Lenin resided on Percy Circus, less than half a mile north of Clerkenwell Green.

In the 1920s and 1930s, 37a Clerkenwell Green was a venue for Communist Party meetings, and the Marx Memorial Library was founded on the same site in 1933.

In April 2011, the former Middlesex Prison on Sans Walk ( known as the House of Detention Clerkenwell ) became the setting for a production of Shakespeare's Macbeth.

It is said that Vladimir Lenin and a young Joseph Stalin met in the Crown and Anchor pub ( now known as The Crown Tavern ) on Clerkenwell Green when the latter was visiting London in 1903.

The London Fire Brigade initially despatched four fire appliances and a turntable ladder, with units from A24 Soho Fire Station being the first on the scene at 19: 42, followed shortly by colleagues from C27 Clerkenwell, A22 Manchester Square and A23 Euston.

Nightclubs such as Fabric and Turnmills were the pioneers of the night life in the area, patronised on weekday nights by the many workers in nearby Holborn, Clerkenwell and the City ; at weekends, the night clubs and bars with late licences draw people into the area on their own merit.

Louis William Wain was born on 5 August 1860 in Clerkenwell in London.

" He married privately and in contravention of the 1772 Royal Marriages Act at St. John's Church, Clerkenwell, London on 8 January 1847 to Sarah Fairbrother ( 1816 – 12 January 1890 ), the daughter of John Fairbrother, a servant in Westminster.

A blue plaque on the Factory where Maxim invented and produced the gun is to be found in Hatton Garden at the junction with Clerkenwell Road in London.

The painting collection includes religious art, particularly images of patron saint of the Order, St. John the Baptist, portraits of Grand Masters, Knights and clergy, sea and landscapes, depicting naval battles and views of Malta ; prints and drawings include portraits of the Knights, topographical views and maps showing the famous fortifications on their island homes, as well as prints of the English Priory and the surrounding area of Clerkenwell.

The Clerkenwell house commissioned by Janet Street-Porter In 1994, for the documentary series The Longest Walk, she visited long-distance walker Ffyona Campbell on the last section of her round-the-world walk.