London’s Pocket Parks: St Johns Street, Clerkenwell, EC1

This is a new linear park near Farringdon Station that opened a few months agoSt Johns Street is a historic street in Clerkenwell and forms the first section of the original route of the Great North Road – the coaching route between London and Scotland. This section of the road has always been very wide, probably as a turn around spot before the road reaches Smithfield markets, so in 2022, plans were put forward to shrink it a bit for the first time in its history.
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