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	Bloomsbury Square - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bloomsbury Square is a square in Bloomsbury, Camden, London.
		The square was developed by 4th Earl of Southampton, in the late 17th century, and was initially known as Southampton Square.
		It was one of the earliest London squares.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bloomsbury_Square (274 words)

	Bloomsbury
		Bloomsbury, London Bloomsbury is an area of central Borough of Camden, named after early landowner William de Blemund wh...
		Bloomsbury, New Jersey Bloomsbury is a borough located in 2000 census, the borough had a total population of 886.
		Bloomsbury Square Bloomsbury Square is a square in 17th century, when the 4th Earl of Southampton built the square surro...
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/bloomsbury.html (148 words)

	Encyclopedia: Bloomsbury Square
		The Bloomsbury, a corner pub Bloomsbury is an area of central London, in the London Borough of Camden, named after early landowner William de Blemund who acquired the land in 1201.
		Bedford Square is in the Bloomsbury district of central London in England.
		Tavistock Square Tavistock Square is a square in Bloomsbury, London.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bloomsbury-Square (766 words)

	Bloomsbury, London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Bloomsbury is an area of central London, in the London Borough of Camden, named after early landowner who acquired the land in 1201.
		It is known for its squares, others of which include Bloomsbury Square, Gordon Square and Tavistock Square.
		Bloomsbury is served by numerous tube stations: Euston, Euston Square, Goodge Street, Warren Street, Tottenham Court Road, Russell Square and King's Cross St. Pancras.
	www.bexley.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Bloomsbury,_London (310 words)

	An Introduction to Bloomsbury (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The manor of Bloomsbury was seized at the Dissolution by the Crown and assigned to the 1st.
		The decline in the desirability of Bloomsbury as a residential area with the construction of fashionable villa developments in the north and west led to an increase in non-residential uses during the 19th.
		Euston Square was re-developed in the late 1960's with the re-development of the station.
	www.camdennet.org.uk /groups/blmsbry-pntrshp/articles/item?item_id=12565 (4651 words)

	Great Public Spaces: Russell Square \| Project for Public Spaces (PPS) - Placemaking for Communities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Bloomsbury is characterized by a density of traditional cultural institutions: the university, creative industries, and a variety of hotels and B&B's.
		The rest of this wide-open square is given to greenery, large chestnut trees, meandering pathways and plenty of benches.
		Russell Square is not sociable in the sense that is strikes excited conversations with strangers or suggests surprising events.
	www.pps.org /gps/one?public_place_id=525 (1067 words)

	Bloomsbury Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1: tourist information from TourUK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Bloomsbury derives its name from 'Blemondisberi', meaning 'the manor of (William) Blemond', who acquired the land in the early-13th century.
		None of the original buildings of Bloomsbury Square survive and today its shady garden, graced by a statue of statesman Charles James Fox (1749 - 1806), is encircled by a noisy one-way traffic system.
		The square has had many famous residents but is most closely associated with the the literary and artistic 'Bloomsbury Group'.
	www.touruk.co.uk /london_squares/bloomsbury_square1.htm (218 words)

	GENUKI: Bloomsbury History
		BLOOMSBURY, a parish included within the borough of Finsbury, London, in the county of Middlesex, about 1 mile to the N.E. of St. Paul's.
		Bloomsbury is the head of a County Court district, and contains the court-house and a savings-bank.
		Among the residents in the square have been Sir Hans Sloane, the founder of the British Museum; Richard Baxter, the eminent divine; the poet Akenside; Judge Mansfield; and the elder D'Israeli, who there wrote the "Curiosities of Literature." Sir Samuel Romilly, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Lord Tenterden, and Lord Loughborough resided in Great Russell-street.
	homepages.gold.ac.uk /genuki/MDX/Bloomsbury/BloomsburyHistory.html (508 words)

	Articles - Bloomsbury, London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Bloomsbury is an area of central London, in the London Borough of Camden, named after a Norman landowner William de Blemund (Blemondisben) who acquired the land in 1201.
		Bloomsbury is also the location of University College Hospital, which re-opened in 2005 in new buildings on Euston Road, built under the governmentâ€™s public private partnership (PPP).
		The area gives its name to the Bloomsbury Group (also Bloomsbury Set) of artists, the most famous of 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.
	www.storegolf.com /articles/Bloomsbury,_London (749 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Style Live: Travel
		East of London's nightlife hub (Soho) and west of its financial center (City of London), Bloomsbury is at the geographical center of late-20th-century London, and its eclectic architecture reflects the city's diversity.
		Bloomsbury, in turn, is catering to its new residents.
		The buzz this summer is to head away from Soho and into Bloomsbury, where the owners of The End have opened a new restaurant and late-night bar called AKA adjacent to the club.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/travel/destinations/toptwenty/related/lobloomsbury.htm (2009 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		'''Bloomsbury Square''' is a square in Bloomsbury, London Bloomsbury, London Borough of Camden Camden, London.
		The square was developed by Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton 4th Earl of Southampton, in the late 17th century, and was initially known as Southampton Square.
		The eastern side of the square is occupied by a large early 20th century office building called Victoria House which was on the short list to become London's City Hall (London) city hall when the Greater London Authority was founded in 2000, but it was not chosen.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Bloomsbury_Square.html (329 words)

	Restaurants in Covent Garden, Leicester Square, Bloomsbury (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Bloomsbury Restaurants: Broadening our scope a little, Covent Garden is bordered by Bloomsbury to the north, an area famed for its literary connections and home to the British Museum.
		In middle of historic Bloomsbury, this is an ideal resting place after a morning in the British Museum.
		Apex a spectacular corner on Leicester Square in the heart of the West End.
	www.coventgardenlife.com /restaurants/jesterschoice/bloomsbury.asp (163 words)

	Georgian London Street and Business Index - Squares
		The Square was laid out in 1730's; the north end of the Square was left open to preserve the view from Berkeley House (later Devonshire House).
		This Square was built in 1681 and named for Charles II; a statue of him was erected at its center.
		The square is dominated by a large column surounded by bronze lions, and topped with a 17 foot high statue of Nelson.
	www.georgianindex.net /London/squares/l_square.html (1709 words)

	The Bloomsbury Group - free study resources
		The Bloomsbury Group is a name given to a loose collection of writers, artists, and intellectuals who came together during the period 1905-06 at the home of Virginia Woolf and her sister Vanessa Bell.
		Bloomsbury Recalled is written by Quentin Bell, one of the last surviving members of the Bloomsbury circle.
		Bloomsbury Rooms: Modernism, Subculture, and Domesticity traces the development of Bloomsbury's domestic aesthetic from the group's influential Post-Impressionism in Britain around 1910 through the 1930s.
	www.mantex.co.uk /ou/a319/bloom-01.htm (906 words)

	Articles - Russell Square (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In 2002 the square was re-landscaped in a style based on the original early 19th century layout by Humphry Repton (1752-1818), and the cafÃ© in the square was redeveloped.
		The square is now locked at night to prevent what London Borough of Camden described as "other undesirables", better known as gay men, from meeting for sex.
		The square is named for the surname of the Earls and Dukes of Bedford, who developed the family's London landholdings in the 17th and 18th centuries, beginning with Covent Garden (Bedford Street).
	www.oldion.com /articles/Russell_Square (309 words)

	Bloomsbury Improvement Group: Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Bloomsbury Association is the main community group in Bloomsbury and it aims to support the local population in all ways possible.
		Bloomsbury is one of Camden's three drugs and crime 'hotspots' (the others are Camden Town and Kings Cross).
		A homeless drug addict coming into Bloomsbury will find a ready supply of class A drugs on the streets: he or she is unlikely to be arrested by the Police if not dealing drugs; and a range of facilities is available in the area.
	www.casa.ucl.ac.uk /bloomsbury/www/ba (1561 words)

	Local - Chalk Farm Road, London
		Bloomsbury is a corruption of Lomesbury, which was an ancient village that stood on the spot many years ago.
		One of his developments was what is now Bloomsbury Square and was originally known as Southampton Square.
		Later, Bloomsbury attracted another group of intellectuals, but they were more interested in drinking than they were in discussing art.
	www.viewlondon.co.uk /home_feat_local_bloomsbury_history.asp (358 words)

	London Is: Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Bloomsbury is situated in central London bounded by Tottenham Court Road (west), Euston Road (north), Grays Inn Road (west) and New Oxford Street / Theobalds Road (south).
		Russell Square, whose butchered western side marks the edge of the university precinct, is in some ways the centre of Bloomsbury and the point where two different Bloomsbury's meet: to the west and north the campus; to the east and south hotel and tourist land.
		While the restored Russell Hotel ranks as one of Bloomsbury's glories, the fate of Dolls other Russell Square Hotel, the Imperial, represents a double disaster: it was demolished, and has been replaced by what must be the ugliest and most tasteless of the many modern hotels in London.
	www.londonis.net /bloomsbury/home.html (1265 words)

	Bloomsbury Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Instrumental in the formation of the group must have been the fact that the four children of Julia and Leslie Stephen (Vanessa, Thoby, Virginia and Adrian) had moved to a house in Gordon Square in the Bloomsbury area in 1904 after both of their parents were dead (Leslie had died in February of that year).
		There was a large overlap between Bloomsbury and the people contributing to and supporting the (more formally organised) Omega Workshop(s), initiated by Roger Fry a few years after he entered the Bloomsbury Group in 1910: e.g.
		The Bloomsbury Set could certainly be considered as a clique, including acquaintances, such as Lady Ottoline Morrell, whose estate in Garsington undoubtedly became another Bloomsbury centre, where the Bloomsberries mingled with other artists and intellectuals of their day.
	www.pagibigfund.com /bloomsbury-group.html (873 words)

	THE HOSPITAL IN GREAT ORMOND STREET, BLOOMSBURY, 1859-1895. - THE HISTORY OF THE LONDON HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL - ...
		Standing in Queen Square, Bloomsbury, to-day, with its dignified old houses, one might imagine oneself back in the period when the last British sovereign of the House of Stuart was on the throne, and the nation was preparing for the advent of the Hanoverian dynasty.
		From the illustration of Queen Square in 1787 it will be seen there was an uninterrupted view of these northern heights, the north side being left open so as not to spoil the view of the Hampstead and Highgate hills.
		Queen Square, so named in honour of Queen Anne, preserves, in fact, in some curious way the atmosphere of the latter part of the seventeenth century, which Gloucester Street and Devonshire Street, belonging to the same period, have lost.
	www.homeoint.org /morrell/londonhh/grormon1.htm (2083 words)

	LondonTown.com \| Bloomsbury Square Guide \| Bloomsbury Square London, WC1A, England, UK \| London Streets by Street \| ...
		Bloomsbury Square is located in the borough of Camden
		The nearest underground station to Bloomsbury Square is 'Holborn ' which is about 5 minutes to the South East.
		Set in the heart of the West End with easy access to the City, Thistle Bloomsbury (formerly the Kingsley) is a hidden treasure.
	www.londontown.com /LondonStreets/bloomsbury_square_1a8.html?T=MAG&M=Restaurant (1008 words)

	County of Hunterdon - Bloomsbury Borough
		Bloomsbury is located on the south side of the Musconetcong River in the northwest corner of Hunterdon County.
		The name is derived from the Bloom family influential in the early history of the town.
		Bloomsbury is the third smallest municipality in Hunterdon County.
	www.co.hunterdon.nj.us /mun/bloom.htm (163 words)

	Citiesforfree.com London - Writers and Rebels Walk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Bloomsbury Group was a group of authors and painters who met in London during the 1920s to share ideas.
		Tavistock Square, including the old Tavistock House, started to be built in 1803, but only the west side of the original square remains.
		BMA House in Tavistock Square was initially built for the Theosophical Society but they could not afford to complete it, so it was sold to the BMA.
	www.citiesforfree.com /walks/writers/writerswalk.htm (2777 words)

	tourist information on Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia London, England; a travel guide from TourUK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Bloomsbury is named after 'Blemondisberi' or the manor of William Blemond, who acquired the land in the early-13th century.
		Bloomsbury is still home to writers and artists and is a traditional centre of the book trade.
		The dignified Fitzroy Square was named after Henry Fitzroy, the son of Charles II, and later Earl of Euston.
	www.touruk.co.uk /london_bloomsbury/london_bloomsbury.htm (582 words)

	Bloomsbury: Omega & Hogarth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Her spaniel "Flush" was the subject of a book by Virginia Woolf, in which the dog felt cast off when Elizabeth married Robert Browning, much as Virginia felt cast off when Vanessa married Clive).
		The poem included at the end of the two Bloomsbury pages (other one here) are both by Charlotte Mew (1870-1928).
		According to Alida Monro, who published the only known collection of Mew's works, Mew's was a part of the Bloomsbury scene, she also wrote fiction (published in "The Yellow Book"), and was a lesbian.
	www.walrus.com /~gibralto/acorn/germ/Bloomsbury.html (802 words)

	Passing of the Third Floor Back - CHAPTER I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		he neighbourhood of Bloomsbury Square towards four o'clock of a November afternoon is not so crowded as to secure to the stranger, of appearance anything out of the common, immunity from observation.
		Tibb's boy, screaming at the top of his voice that she was his honey, stopped suddenly, stepped backwards on to the toes of a voluble young lady wheeling a perambulator, and remained deaf, apparently, to the somewhat personal remarks of the voluble young lady.
		Forty-eight Bloomsbury Square, assembled after dinner in the drawing-room, discussed the stranger with that freedom and frankness characteristic of Forty-eight Bloomsbury Square, towards the absent.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/drama/PassingoftheThirdFloorBack/Chap1.html (2998 words)

	NYSL Travels - Virginia Woolf's London
		Bloomsbury lies east of Tottenham Court Road, north of New Oxford Street, west of Gray's Inn Road and south of Euston Road.
		At No.44, Lady Ottoline Morrell, an affiliate of the Bloomsbury Group in a manner of speaking (among her lovers were Augustus John, Bertrand Russell and Roger Fry,) held her salons for artists and writers.
		Westminster Abbey is on the south side of the square and outside its west front an archway leads to the Dean's Yard.
	www.nysoclib.org /travels/woolf.html (7427 words)

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