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Cleveland Hall, London

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Cleveland Hall was a meeting hall in Cleveland Street, London that was a centre of the British secularist movement between 1861 and 1878, and that was then used for various purposes before becoming a Methodist meeting hall.

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Cleveland Hall, London
Cleveland Street, London Fitzrovia (London Borough of Camden)

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W1T 4JL London, Fitzrovia (London Borough of Camden)
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