ride up Holborn Hill

ride up Holborn Hill
   obsolete
   to be taken in London to your execution
   Holborn Hill was on the road from Newgate prison to the Tyburn gallows:
    I shall live to see you ride up Holborn Hill. (Congreve, 1695)

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