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clerkenwell
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What does clerkenwell mean?
proper noun
- An area of London, England, comprising parts of the boroughs of Camden and Islington (OS grid ref TQ3182).
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In England they taught us silk-weaving and clock-making, starting the one in Spitalfields, the other in Clerkenwell.
Learning the art of clockmaking, he went to Edinburgh, and subsequently removed to London, where he obtained work in Clerkenwell, then famed for its clocks and watches.
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The great bell of Saint Paul’s was striking one in the cleared air, when Mr. Lorry, escorted by Jerry, high-booted and bearing a lantern, set forth on his return-passage to Clerkenwell.
A few days afterwards, Lord Falconbridge and the Bishop of Exeter assembled the citizens in St. John’s Field, Clerkenwell, and asked them if they would have Henry of Lancaster for their King?
They came to the Shelter, and asked advice; they were received, and he made application to the sitting Magistrate at Clerkenwell as to a situation, and what he ought to do.