English Explanatory Dictionary

Holywell Street

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A former street in central London, famed for selling pornography in Victorian times.

Word forms

Holywell Street

Etymology

Named after one of the local holy wells, “the sweet and sacred waters of St Clements Church that still survives on the Strand today, and gave Holywell Street its nickname of the Backside of St Clements”.

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