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Great Russell Street is a street in Bloomsbury, London, best known for being the location of the British Museum. [1] It runs between Tottenham Court Road (part of the A400 route) in the west, and Southampton Row (part of the A4200 route) in the east.
Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG, England: Collection size: Approx. 8 million objects: Visitors: 5,820,860 (2023) (up 42% from 2022) Ranked first nationally; Chair: George Osborne: Director: Sir Mark Jones: Public transit access: Tottenham Court Road Goodge Street; Holborn; Russell Square: Website: britishmuseum.org: Area: 807,000 sq ft ...
- 7 June 1753; 270 years ago
- Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG, England, United Kingdom
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Bloomsbury (including the closely linked St Giles area) has a long association with neighbouring Holborn; but is nearly always considered as distinct from Holborn.
All of the geographic area of Bloomsbury is covered by the Bloomsbury Conservation Area, an historic designation designed to limit new development, and ensure that changes to the built environment preserve and enhance its special character. This conservation areais one of the oldest and most significant in the UK, having been designated in 1968, le...
Neighbouring areas include St Pancras to the north and west, Fitzrovia to the west, Covent Garden and Holborn to the south, and Clerkenwellto the east. For street name etymologies see Street names of Bloomsbury.
Historically, Bloomsbury is associated with the arts, education, and medicine. The area gives its name to the Bloomsbury Group of artists, among whom was Virginia Woolf, who met in private homes in the area in the early 1900s, and to the lesser known Bloomsbury Gang of Whigs formed in 1765 by John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford. The publisher Faber &...
Bloomsbury contains some of London's finest parks and buildings, and is particularly known for its formal squares. These include: 1. Russell Square, a large and orderly square; its gardens were originally designed by Humphry Repton. Russell Square Underground stationis a short distance away. 2. Bedford Square, built between 1775 and 1783, is still ...
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine (formerly the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital) are both located on Great Ormond Street, off Queen Square, which itself is home to the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (formerly the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases). Bloomsbury is...
One of the largest building in the area is the Brutalist Brunswick Centrea residential building with a shopping centre at ground floor.
Bloomsbury is in the parliamentary constituency of Holborn and St Pancras. The western half of the district comprises Bloomsbury ward, which elects three councillors to Camden Borough Council.
In February 2010, businesses were balloted on an expansion of the InHolborn Business Improvement District (BID) to include the southern part of Bloomsbury. Only businesses with a rateable value in excess of £60,000 could vote as only these would pay the BID levy. This expansion of the BID into Bloomsbury was supported by Camden Council.The proposal...
Rail
Several London railway stations serve Bloomsbury. There are three London Undergroundstations in Bloomsbury: 1. Russell Square 2. King's Cross St. Pancras 3. Euston Square 4. Goodge Street King's Cross St. Pancras station offers step-free access to all lines, whilst Euston Square offers step-free access to the westbound platform. Other stations nearby include: Euston, Warren Street, Goodge Street, Tottenham Court Road, Holborn and Chancery Lane. There is a disused station in Bloomsbury on the...
Buses
Several bus stops can be found in Bloomsbury. All buses passing through Bloomsbury call at bus stops on Russell Square, Gower Street or Tottenham Court Road. Several key London destinations can be reached from Bloomsbury directly, including: Camden Town, Greenwich, Hampstead Heath, Piccadilly Circus, Victoria, and Waterloo. Euston bus stationis to the north of Bloomsbury.
Road
One of the 13 surviving taxi drivers' sheltersin London, where drivers can stop for a meal and a drink, is in Russell Square. Bloomsbury's road network links the district to several destinations across London. Key routes nearby include: 1. the A40 (Bloomsbury Way/High Holborn) - eastbound to Clerkenwell (via A401), Holborn Circus and Bank; westbound to Oxford Circus and Marble Arch 2. the A400 (Gower St./Bloomsbury St.) - northbound to Camden Town, Holloway (via A503) and Archway; southbound...
- 10,892 (2011 Census. Ward)
- England
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Great Russell Street is a street in Bloomsbury, London, best known for being the location of the British Museum. It runs between Tottenham Court Road (part of the A400 route) in the west, and Southampton Row (part of the A4200 route) in the east.
23 de jun. de 2017 · Great Russell Street, Russell Square and Bedford Square, all near the Museum, are named after these families. On 19 June 1675, William and Rachel Russell sold this part of their estate, known as Babers Field, to Ralph Montagu (to whom Rachel was related through his marriage to her half-sister) and this was where he subsequently chose ...
21 de dez. de 2020 · Address. Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG, UK. Phone +44 20 7323 8299. Web Visit website. London is home to dozens of memorable museums, from the Tate Britain to the National Portrait Gallery, but one of its most extensive collections of objects and art can be found in the British Museum.
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