wrote:
John Rowland wrote:

obligatory nitpick of nitpicker
Anyone who has worked there for twenty years should know the boundary
between Holborn and High Holborn is Grays Inn Road! ;-)

Nice one, John, but:

even more obligatory nitpick of nitpicker's nitpicker

Grays [sic] Inn Road??

Yes.
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1996/Uksi_19961078_en_1.htm
He kind of owns the thing, I think, so if he says there's no apostrophe,
he's right.

Holborn Place is the drive of the Renaissance Chancery Court Hotel,
and it does lead from High Holborn to Whetstone Park, but is
probably a private road. Then again, many of the roads shown in this
area, such as Grays Inn Square, are probably private also, so it is
reasonable that they would show it, especially since this is
basically a walking map, and I think anyone can walk through Holborn
Place.

Well, one lives and learns. I have seen what I took just to be a
service entrance to what was the old Pearl Assurance (?) builiding,
now the hotel you mentioned, but have never been through it, and had
no idea that one could access Whetstone Park through it but, as you
say, it is most likely pedestrian access only.

I said no such thing.... ISTR I've been through it in my car, but
commissionaire bod wasn't too impressed. Taxis serving the hotel drive in
from High Holborn, and they must exit into Whetstone Park, I think, BICBW.