Holloway is a district in the modern borough of Islington (London, England). It was expanded into in the urban development of the 19th century. Holloway was the site of Holloway prison, opened in 1852 as a mixed-sex prison, which became a women-only prison in 1903 and was closed in 2016. In the early 20th century, many famous suffragettes were imprisoned in Holloway.

In London Labour and the London Poor edition: 

Phase 1

Of Groundsel and Chickweed Sellers. (Volume 1): "The grunsell a gentleman gives me leave to get out of his garden: that’s down Battle-bridge way, in the Chalk-road, leading to Holloway. I gets there every morning about nine. I goes there straight."

Of the Street Sellers of Live Birds. (Volume 2): "The localities where these men "catch," are the neighbourhoods of the places I have mentioned as their residences, and at Holloway, Hampstead, Highgate, Finchley, Battersea, Blackheath, Putney, Mortlake, Chiswick, Richmond, Hampton, Kingston, Eltham, Carshalton, Streatham, the Tootings, Woodford, Epping, Snaresbrook, Walthamstow, Tottenham, Edmonton—wherever, in fine, are open fields, plains, or commons around the metropolis."

Phase 2

Of the Tricks of the Bird-Duffers. (Volume 2)