Farringdon Road is a street in Clerkenwell, in the modern boroughs of Islington and Camden. It continues into the City of London as Farrington Street. The road was constructed from the 1840s to 1860s and its construction included the burying of the River Fleet and building of the Metropolitan Railway.

In London Labour and the London Poor edition: 

Phase 1

A Visit to the Rookery of St. Giles and its Neighbourhood. (Volume 4): "The most of the low girls in this locality do not go out till late in the evening, and chiefly devote their attention to drunken men. They frequent the principal thoroughfares in the vicinity of Oxford Street, Holborn, Farringdon Street, and other bustling streets."

Phase 2

Statement of “Old John,” the Waterman at the Farringdon-street Cab-stand, concerning the Old Black Crossing-Sweeper who left £800 to Miss Waithman. (Volume 2)