Lincoln's Inn Fields was called suburban during the early modern period: "Gerard, who dates his Herbal (fol. 1597) 'From my house in Holborne, within the suburbs of London, this first of December, 1597.'" [2]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gerard

[2] https://archive.org/stream/murrayshandbookf00john/murrayshan...