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Saffron Hill is the name of a street in the south eastern corner of the
London Borough of Camden, between Farringdon Road and Hatton Garden. The
name of the street derives from the fact that it was at one time part of an
estate on which saffron grew.
In 1850 it was described as a squalid neighbourhood, the home of paupers
and thieves. In Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist" (Chapter 8), the Artful
Dodger leads Oliver to Fagin's den on Saffron Hill; it is described as a
"dirty and more wretched place he had never seen. The street was very
narrow and muddy, and the air was impregnated with filthy odours".
Saffron Hill formed a liberty which became part of the County of London in
1889. It was abolished in 1900 and formed part of the Metropolitan Borough
of Holborn until 1965.
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