Time Team did a limited dig of Lincoln's Inn and the Fields for a show transmitted in March 2009.  I stumbled across a copy of the show on YouTube (link to the start of the segment on the Fields 18 minutes in - embedded video below starts at beginning of show) Also of interest is the …
Sir Robert Hunter on the need to open up Lincoln’s Inn Fields to the public – 1894
Sir Robert Hunter was one of the co-founders of The National Trust.  He was a lawyer with  an office at 6 Lincoln's Inn Fields (a building more famous recently for being "The Apprentice House 2013" in this year's season of the BBC talent/light entertainment show).  The Trust was created in part to buy up public …
Whetstone Park resurfaced
This small but important road at the rear of Lincoln's Inn Fields had fallen in to very poor repair. Â It was resurfaced just before Xmas 2012. Whetstone Park crops up in Pepys diaries (16 November 1668) . He was chasing after his wife's former maid Deb, with whom he had been caught having an affair. …
Lincoln’s Inn Fields and the localities adjacent – their historical and topographical associations Charles William Heckethorn
A neighbour recently passed me a digital copy of the above book from 1896, around the time that the Fields became a public park. Â It's a wonderful period piece and well worth an idle browse with a cup of coffee. Â The book also serves as a snapshot of the area only a few years before …
Lincoln’s Inn Fields 1682 map
When you look at maps of London over time Lincoln's Inn Fields is one of the few constant green spots. Â Here's a map from 1682 I stumbled across in the 1911 Survey of London. In the early C17th there had been much wrangling to protect the Fields from commercial property development. Â This was interrupted by …
Friends of Lincoln's Inn Fields 