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| • | 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. The land in question remained largely rural/agricultural until the early 1660s when the then Earl of Southampton constructed what was eventually to become Bloomsbury Square.
The area was laid out mainly in the 18th century, largely by landowners like the Wriothesley Russell, 3rd Duke of Bedford who built Bloomsbury Market which opened in March 1730.
The area contains some of London's finest parks and buildings, and is particularly known for its formal squares. These include the large and orderly Russell Square, with its gardens originally designed by Humphry Repton, the smaller unusual round Bedford Square (built between 1775 and 1783), Bloomsbury Square, dominated by the grand Victoria House, Queen Square, home to many hospitals, Gordon Square, Woburn Square and Torrington Square, which are home to parts of University College London. Tavistock Square, home to the British Medical Association, was the site of one of the 7 July 2005 London bombings.
Historically Bloomsbury is associated with the arts, education and medicine. It is home to Senate House, the library of the University of London, University College London, SOAS, Slade School of Fine Art, Birkbeck, University of London, and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. The British Museum, which first opened to the public on January 15, 1759 in Montagu House, is at the heart of Bloomsbury. At the centre of the museum around the former British Library Reading Room where Karl Marx was a reader, the space formerly filled with the concrete storage bunkers of the British Library is today the Great Court, an indoor square with an amazing glass roof designed by British architect Norman Foster. It houses displays, cinema, a shop, cafe and restaurant. The British Library now has a new purpose-built home on the north edge of Bloomsbury, just across Euston Road.
One of Londonࢀ&#-2509; most famous hospitals, Great Ormond Street Hospital for children, is located just off Queen Square, which is home to National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital. Bloomsbury is also the location of University College Hospital, which re-opened in 2005 in new buildings on Euston Road, built under the governmentࢀ&#-2509; public private partnership (PPP). The Eastman Dental Hospital is locat
Source: [wikipedia: bloomsbury, london]
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