Red Lion Square
About Red Lion Square
Red Lion Square is a small square in Holborn, London. The square was laid out in 1684 by Nicholas Barbon, taking its name from the Red Lion Inn. According to some sources, the bodies of three regicides—Oliver Cromwell, John Bradshaw and Henry Ireton—were placed in a pit on the site of the square.
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The car park firm NCP founded its first car park on a wartime bomb site in Red Lion Square in Holborn in 1948.
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Coordinates: 51.5192, -0.1189
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