St John Street is a historic street located in Clerkenwell, Islington, north

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, England. The street runs from Smithfield Market and Charterhouse Street in the south to the junction of

City Road City Road or The City Road is a road that runs through central London. The northwestern extremity of the road is at Angel where it forms a continuation of Pentonville Road. Pentonville Road itself is the modern name for the eastern part of Lon ...

and

Pentonville Road Pentonville Road is a road in Central London that runs west to east from Kings Cross to City Road at The Angel, Islington. The road is part of the London Inner Ring Road and part of the boundary of the London congestion charge zone. The roa ...

(near

Upper Street Upper Street is the main street of the Islington district of inner north London, and carries the A1 road. It begins at the junction of the A1 and Liverpool Road, continuing on from Islington High Street which runs from the crossroads at Penton ...

) in the north, close to the

Angel tube station Angel is a London Underground station in the Angel, London, Angel area of the London Borough of Islington. It is on the Bank and Monument stations, Bank branch of the Northern line, between King's Cross St Pancras tube station, King's Cross St. ...

. It is the first section of the original route of the Great North Road. The

Red Bull Theatre The Red Bull was an inn-yard conversion erected in Clerkenwell, London operating in the 17th century. For more than four decades, it entertained audiences drawn primarily from the City and its suburbs, developing a reputation over the years for ...

was located on the street between 1604 and 1666, when it was destroyed in the Great Fire of London.

James Burnett, Lord Monboddo James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (baptised 25 October 1714; died 26 May 1799) was a Scottish judge, scholar of linguistic evolution, philosopher and deist. He is most famous today as a founder of modern comparative historical linguistics. In 176 ...

(1714–1799) lived at 13 St John Street. He held "learned suppers" at his house, with guests including

James Boswell James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (; 29 October 1740 ( N.S.) – 19 May 1795), was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, born in Edinburgh. He is best known for his biography of his friend and older contemporary the English writer ...

Robert Burns Robert Burns (25 January 175921 July 1796), also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns, was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who hav ...

and Samuel Johnson. Nowadays there are many office buildings, restaurants, and bars in the street.

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Streets in the City of London Streets in the London Borough of Islington {{London-geo-stub