Barefoot in the fields

Keith Austin finds London's hidden oasis of calm is flanked by two of the city's most under-appreciated museums.

There is a curious concatenation of urban infrastructure around London's Lincoln's Inn Fields that has rendered it almost invisible. Loosely bounded on four sides by the busyness of High Holborn, Kingsway, Chancery Lane and Fleet Street, it is further insulated by a labyrinth of minor streets and winding alleyways.

It is the city's very own Brigadoon, lyricist Alan Jay Lerner's mythical town that only appears every 100 years. One moment you are sidestepping tourists and locals, and the next you are enveloped by a grassy oasis of calm, peppered with picnickers and canoodling students.

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