Furnival's Inn

[2] By the seventeenth century, the Inns of Chancery began to turn into societies for attorneys and solicitors; they became residences, offices and dining clubs.

According to the Gentleman's Magazine of June 1818, "'Furnival's Inn Cellar' was a place well known to the professional gentlemen, where a good dinner may be had at a reasonable price.

[7] The character John Westlock in Martin Chuzzlewit lives in Furnival's Inn, and describes it as "...a shady, quiet place, echoing to the footsteps of the stragglers who have business there; and rather monotonous and gloomy on summer evenings.

... there are snug chambers in those Inns where the bachelors live, and, for the desolate fellows they pretend to be, it is quite surprising how well they get on".[3]J.M.

It was an extra-parochial area and became a civil parish in 1858 within the Holborn Poor Law Union.