Travel Reference
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BLOOMSBURY
Bloomsbury was built in grid-plan style from the 1660s onwards, and the formal, bour-
geois Georgian squares laid out then remain the area's main distinguishing feature. In
the twentieth century, Bloomsbury acquired a reputation as the city's most learned
quarter, dominated by the dual institutions of the British Museum and London
University, and home to many of London's chief book publishers, but perhaps best
known for its literary inhabitants, among them T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf. Only in
its northern fringes does the character of the area change dramatically, as you near the
busy main-line train stations of Euston, St Pancras and King's Cross.
