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The route is carried south–north through Bloomsbury on Bury Place, Montague Street, Montague Place, Malet Street, Tavistock Place, and Judd Street. [48] Quietway 2 (Q2) - Running on segregated cycle track or residential streets, Q2 carries cyclists on an unbroken, signposted cycle route from Bloomsbury to Walthamstow.
Bloomsbury Square's garden contains a bronze statue by Richard Westmacott of Charles James Fox, who was a Whig associate of the Dukes of Bedford. None of the original 17th-century buildings survive, but there are many handsome 18th- and early 19th-century houses.
She had recently inherited the agricultural fields now known as Bloomsbury from her father. Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford (1765–1802) came of age in 1786. He was a spendthrift gambler, with an interest in farming on the Woburn estate. However, he was not interested in Bedford House in Bloomsbury, instead living in the West End. In 1800 ...
Bloomsbury Court, Bloomsbury Place, Bloomsbury Square, Bloomsbury Street and Bloomsbury Way – the name is first noted in 1201, when William de Blemond, a Norman landowner, acquired the land [24] The name Bloomsbury is a development from Blemondisberi – the bury, or manor, of Blemond.
The Bloomsbury Group was a group of associated British writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists in the early 20th century. [1]
Russell Square is a large garden square in Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden, built predominantly by the firm of James Burton. It is near the University of London's main buildings and the British Museum. Almost exactly square, to the north is Woburn Place and to the south-east is Southampton Row.
Woburn Square. Woburn Square is the smallest of the Bloomsbury squares and owned by the University of London.Designed by Thomas Cubitt and built between 1829 and 1847, [1] it is named after Woburn Abbey, the main country seat of the Dukes of Bedford, [2] who developed much of Bloomsbury.
The Brunswick Centre is a grade II listed residential and shopping centre in Bloomsbury, London, England. It is located between Brunswick Square and Russell Square and is administratively in the London Borough of Camden. [1]