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Today I want to share A Lady in London’s free self-guided Bloomsbury walk and map with you. This part of central London is packed with everything from literary highlights to leafy squares and famous museums. Everyone from Virginia Woolf to Charles Dickens has called this London neighborhood home, and it’s a great place to explore. My walking route will help you discover the best of Bloomsbury on foot. I hope you enjoy the journey.

Bloomsbury Walk

From Russell Square to the British Museum, Bedford Square to Lamb’s Conduit Street, Bloomsbury is one of the most famous central London neighborhoods .

Set in a beautiful part of the UK capital, my Bloomsbury walk is the perfect way to get into London’s literary past, explore pretty streets, eat and drink at independent cafes and restaurants, and indulge your inner culture lover.

You can see more walks in the book London’s Hidden Walks , too. It’s for you if you enjoy discovering the UK capital’s off-the-beaten-path areas. You can get it here .

I’ve also written a whole post about London walks books , so you can take a look at it if you want more options.

Bloomsbury Walk Route

My self-guided Bloomsbury walking tour starts at Russell Square station. It’s centrally located and has great transport links, so you can arrive by tube, bus, bike, or on foot from other parts of the city.

When you exit the Underground station, take a left on Bernard Street, then another quick left on Herbrand Street. It will take you past a historic pub in atmospheric surroundings. When you reach Guildford Street, turn right to get to Russell Square.

When you get there, take a right to walk up to the intersection at the northeast corner of the square. As you go, you’ll start to get a glimpse of the Georgian townhouses and pretty green space the area is known for.

Cross the street to enter Russell Square, then walk diagonally through it to get to the southwest corner. Once there, take a right on Russell Square and a quick left on Montague Place.

Walk down Montague Place, passing by the back of the British Museum and the south side of Malet Street Gardens as you make your way to Bedford Square.

When you arrive at Bedford Square, walk around it and take in the stunning Georgian buildings and doors as you go. This is one of my favorite places to take in Bloomsbury’s heritage architecture.

Once you’ve explored the square, exit by taking a right on Bloomsbury Street and then a left on Great Russell Street. This will bring you past the front of the British Museum.

You can go inside and have a look around if you want to, or continue your Bloomsbury walk by turning right on Bury Place.

There are lots of shops on Bury Place, including the London Review Bookshop (you might remember it from my London literary walk or my itinerary for London for book lovers ).

You can pop in for a browse or have a treat at the adjacent cake shop (yum…cake and books).

From Bury Place, take a left on Bloomsbury Way and walk down to Bloomsbury Square. Dating back to 1665, this is London’s oldest square. Stroll around it and keep an eye out for the historic details on the buildings as you go.

From the square, continue your Bloomsbury walk by exiting from the northeast corner via Bloomsbury Place. When you get to the end, take a left on Southampton Row and follow it until you reach Cosmo Place.

Turn right to walk down Cosmo Place. This pedestrianized street will take you to Queen Square. The public garden in the middle is a good place to rest your feet if you need a break.

There are statues and sculptures all around, including one of a cat. There’s also an 18th-century pub on the corner of Cosmo Place that has historic connections to King George III and his wife, Queen Caroline.

Once you’ve walked around the garden, exit from the northeast corner via Queen Anne’s Walk. When you reach the end, turn right on Guildford Street and continue your Bloomsbury walk until you get to Guildford Place.

Turn right on Guildford Place and follow it as it becomes Lamb’s Conduit Street. There are lots of great restaurants, shops, and cafes here, so it’s worth spending some time exploring.

Lambs Conduit Street, Bloomsbury, London

When you reach Theobald’s Road, turn left and walk east until you get to John Street. Take a left on John Street, passing historic facades and corner pubs as you make your way north and the road becomes Doughty Street.

When it does, you’ll pass the Charles Dickens Museum. You can pop in to see his former home if you want to.

If not, continue your Bloomsbury walk by following Doughty Street north as it becomes Mecklenburgh Square, then Mecklenburgh Street. When it ends at Heathcote Street, turn left and follow the street to the end.

On your right you’ll see a gate that leads into St. George’s Gardens. This secret garden is set in a former 18th-century graveyard. It’s a great place to rest your legs in peaceful surroundings.

Once rested, exit St. George’s Gardens at the northwest corner and walk west down Handel Street until you reach the Marchmont Community Garden, a pretty little urban green space.

Walk through the garden to get to Marchmont Street, where you’ll turn right to take in more of Bloomsbury’s restaurants and cafes.

When you’re done, continue your Bloomsbury walk by turning left on Tavistock Place. It will lead you to Tavistock Square Gardens.

This green space features statues of everyone from Mahatma Ghandi to Virginia Woolf. The latter was a member of the Bloomsbury Group and lived at 52 Tavistock Square between 1924 and 1939.

Bust of Virginia Woolf, Tavistock Square, Bloomsbury

The square is also lined with important buildings, including the headquarters of the British Medical Association. It was designed by prominent English architect Edwin Lutyens in 1911.

When you’re done exploring, exit Tavistock Square at the southwest corner and follow the street called Gordon Square until you reach Gordon Square and Woburn Square. They’re right across from one another.

You can walk through and around them if you want to, or continue your Bloomsbury walk on Byng Place. Don’t miss the many university buildings and the row of red phone boxes by Euston Church as you go.

After Byng Place becomes Torrington Place, turn left on Gower Street and follow the colorful doors and brick buildings down to Store Street.

Turn right on Store Street, where you’ll find lots of restaurants, shops, and cafes (including one of the best coffee shops in London ).

When Store Street meets Tottenham Court Road, turn right and walk up to the Goodge Street tube station. Your self-guided Bloomsbury walking tour ends here.

Walk Details and Map

Map of the first half of the walk: https://goo.gl/maps/moAKhwXN7KVtg8dS7

Map of the second half of the walk: https://goo.gl/maps/PcyNCTcJvFAGJhGz9

Further afield: Fitzrovia , Clerkenwell , King’s Cross , Regent’s Park , Soho , Covent Garden

Bloomsbury Walking Tour

I hope reading through my Bloomsbury walk has made you excited to see this part of central London. It’s a great place to get into the heart of the city.

If you’re interested in doing more walks in the area, head over to my blog post about central London walks . You can see more self-guided London walking tours and maps on my post with all the ones I’ve created, too. Happy walking!

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6 Comments on Lady’s Bloomsbury Walk and Map

It looks so nice! I absolutely loved the bicycle :)))

Absolutely love the description of your walks….feel I am there with you….but I will certainly get out there and do myself.

Thank you so much! I’m glad you feel you’re on the walks with me. I hope you enjoy this one when you do it.

Just done this lovely walk, stopping and start along the way. Breakfast in Russell Square garden, Browsed in London Review bookstore, lunch in Landry Oteline. All really lovely. A busy wedding weekend ahead and this was a perfect quieter way to spend today, wandering around this lovely area of London. Thanks.

You’re welcome! I’m so glad you enjoyed it.

Thinking on our feet Bloomsbury Walks led by Dr Matt Ingleby

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Explore Bloomsbury, with experienced, engaging Bloomsbury expert Dr Matthew Ingleby.

Matt has researched and taught English literature at Queen Mary University of London for a decade. He did his PhD as part of the Leverhulme-funded Bloomsbury Project, supervised by Professor Rosemary Ashton, at University College London.

Whether you know or are new to Bloomsbury, learn to see its streets and squares from surprising angles.

Matt has led many highly successful walking tours around Bloomsbury, and has partnered with many different organisations, including the annual Bloomsbury Festival, the Institute of Historical Research, and Persephone Books.

Since the 1800s Bloomsbury has been an ideas factory! So, in these walks, facts always come with ideas.

Matt has devised these new walks after 15 years of researching, writing and speaking about the area. Each walk explores a different aspect of Bloomsbury's intellectual & cultural identity.

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Quirky Bloomsbury

Most Bloomsbury walking tours focus on the literary links, intellectual institutions and famous residents. On this fun walking tour we’re on the hunt for the surprising, beautiful and quirky history that’s hiding in plain sight.

Get off the beaten track in one of London’s most beautiful and inspiring neighbourhoods and encounter abandoned railways, London’s narrowest alley and epic street art.

Wander the quiet, atmospheric streets of Bloomsbury and take in unusual sculptures, sneaky plaques and unexpected details that help you unravel the area’s unique charm.

The meeting point is outside Holborn Station, the corner of High Holborn and Southampton Row. The address is 120 High Holborn, London WC1V 6RD and its the corner diagonally opposite Sainsbury’s

The walk lasts around 90 minutes and ends near Russell Square Tube Station.

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All Look Up London tours focus on the hidden stories, trying to spot the details above your eye line that are often missed by passersby. There’s a lot of information in an architectural detail, a crest or a sculpture that tells you about the history of the area! See all the walks here .

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Magical Bloomsbury Walk

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In Bloomsbury, there are a remarkable number of magical things from goblins to wizards, from fortune telling to the site of a coven. This walk will take us through some of the lovely squares of Bloomsbury to hear of some strange happenings and stories.

Starting with a building that is not secret but does not announce itself (perhaps the magic is in trying to find it!) we will go on to explore some of the more unusual stories that are hiding in plain sight in Bloomsbury.

Many of the modern residents are students, so we will see what remains of a man who has been looking out for the students of Bloomsbury for nearly 200 years.

Your guide will point out some modern works of art in the area, that reference old legends and traditions. From the imagination of some great female writers, we will also find out about some creatures that may or may not exist. We will hear about a legend from before the British Museum was built to a more recent one that required an exorcism.

From the site of a coven to an architect with a devilish reputation, Bloomsbury will reveal all!

Jenny Funnell, City of London Tour Guide

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Magical Bloomsbury Walk Reviews

Magical Bloomsbury proved to be just that. An area that I thought I knew quite a bit about opened up with the extensive, impressive knowledge of Maggie our guide. On the first hot day of summer she planned it so that we were in the shade as much as possible, and was kind and tolerant when I struggled to keep up. Thank you.

New magic bloomsbury walk was quite different to usual energetic full of facts ones. slower pace, less known facts, but on overall not bad at all. the new guide maggie was attentive, friendly and approachable., it was an interesting walk & talk. maggie told some good stories about people associated with the area., really interesting walk around bloomsbury with great facts and descriptions about buildings and people in the area connected to magic in some way. lots of extra facts and tips thrown in as well. we had a great afternoon. thank you. i can definitely recommend taking this tour with maggie., a friendly guide with some interesting facts and stories on the theme of magic on a walk around bloomsbury. a fair bit of walking between stops, but at a good pace. as always on these walks, things i usually walk past are pointed out - such as the interesting st george's spire. and i appreciated the tips, such as things to see in the british museum and how to view the museum at the magic circle., book a private tour, qualified london tour guides.

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Bloomsbury Squares & Gardens

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Argyle Square
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The Bloomsbury squares and gardens are nearly all close to each other and a pleasant self-guided walk connects them and other places of interest: A stroll through the Bloomsbury Squares . As you walk, you may like some information on the artwork and sculptures you’ll see. Click on our Sculptures page for more detailed information. If you need refreshment, try our Cafes .

OR, once you are in the area, you can follow trails around the squares using your smartphone.

Download the TiCL app and look for the following trails: A walk through the Squares of Bloomsbury, Bloomsbury Squares Sculpture Trail, Brunswick Square Trail

For a longer walk, see also the London Gardens Trust route through Bloomsbury

Wellbeing Walks take place weekly from late February to the end of November. They are free and led by qualified Camden Guides from a different square each week. Look out for posters on the railings of the squares or sign up to Follow this website (on the Home page) to get the next post listing the new season’s walks.

Start – Holborn Underground Station to Red Lion Square via Red Lion Street

From the exit at Holborn immediately cross the main road known as High Holborn. Then keep heading down towards the direction of Chancery Lane until you meet the junction with Red Lion Street . There on the corner is the Old Red Lion Pub which now dates from 1899. However this was originally established much earlier in the 16th century. Then it was known as the Red Lyon Inn and it has a unique place in history.

The Old Red Lion pub where Oliver Cromwells body was kept. This is part of our walking tour of Holborn and Bloomsbury

The hanging of Oliver Cromwell

Following the execution of Charles I on 30 January 1649. The ‘Commonwealth of England’ (1649-1653) was established. This was dominated by Oliver Cromwell. In 1653 Cromwell then took full control and established the Protectorate . He would then serve as ‘Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland’. Following his death in 1658 he was succeeded in the post by his son Richard. That however was only until 1659 when he was ousted by parliamentary troops. In 1660 Parliament then offered to restore the monarchy to Charles II.

After Charles II returned to the throne, parliament passed the Indemnity and Oblivion Act 1660. This act basically restricted any reprisals against anyone who had committed crimes during the Civil War to those who had been involved in the death of Charles I. For those involved in his trial. Indeed those had signed his death warrant. It meant that they now would go on trial themselves . Many were found guilty and hung, drawn and quartered.

Exhumation of the Lord Protector

As a result the exhumation of the bodies of Cromwell and two other men who had signed his fathers death warrant were ordered. They were Cromwell’s son in law, Henry Ireton (1611-1651) and the judge John Bradshaw (1602-1659). All were to be taken to Tyburn and then posthumously executed as traitors. The plan was to gibbet and behead the corpses before throwing them into a pit,

On the way to the gallows the bodies were stored overnight in the Red Lyon Inn’s yard. It is rumored that during the night of their internment, the bodies were swapped . Then re-buried in a pit in the fields which used to surround the pub. It’s impossible to know for sure of course but it’s possible that that pit was in the area of today’s Red Lion Square. Giving rise to many a story of the ghosts of the men haunting the area to this day.

The Battle of Red Lion Square

Head up Red Lion Street until you come to Princeton Street where you should turn left. The square is immediately ahead. It gained notoriety when on 10 June 1684 a pitched battle broke out. This was between workmen developing the site and around 100 lawyer’s from the nearby Gray’s Inn. The lawyer’s had protested at the development. They claimed that if the fields were developed they would lose their ‘wholesome air’ and be detrimental to their health. The lawyer’s turned up armed with bricks and whatever else they could get their hands on. However they were fought off by the workmen who won. It cleared the way for the site to eventually be developed.

Red Lion Square is also the site of the Conway Hall which occupies the north-eastern corner. Opened in 1929 it is owned by the Conway Hall Ethical Society. It was established as a centre for free thought and debate. It was named after Moncure Daniel Conway the American anti-slavery campaigner. He was a man who, whilst in London, was a staunch supporter of women’s suffrage. It now also hosts the famous Sunday Assembly .

Conway Hall on Red Lion Square, Part of our walking tour of Holborn and Bloomsbury

Red Lion Square to Great Ormond Street

From Conway Hall on the square walk up the little passage heading east next to the hall. There you’ll rejoin Red Lion Street . Turn left and then cross over the main road and continue along Lamb’s Conduit Street . Named after the philanthropist William Lambe, who in 1564 gave £1500 to support the rebuilding of the Holborn Conduit . This was an Elizabethan dam made in a tributary leading to the River Fleet. The intention being to bring fresh water into London. The remains of the conduit pump can still be seen. This is on the corner of Lamb’s Conduit Street and Long Yard at the top end of the street. The exact route of the conduit is however now long gone and unknown.

Rugby Estate

The street is a lovely little find. It is full of independent retailers and the ‘little bird’ website features a number of them here . Keep walking up the street to the turning with Rugby Street . The name remembers the establishment of the Rugby estate by the grocer Lawrence Sherrif. He had sold spices to Elizabeth I in the days before she became queen. Rewarded by her with his own coat of arms in 1558. He eventually bought an undeveloped plot of land known as Conduit Close. Developing it prior to his death in 1567. He then left the land as an endowment to help build a school and almshouse in his home town of Rugby. This effectively established the Rugby estate of today.

Lamb's Conduit Street. Part of our walking tour of Holborn and Bloomsbury

Great Ormond Street to Russell Square Tube Station

Carry on up Lamb’s Conduit to the junction with Great Ormond Street and there turn left. The street gives its name to the famous children’s hospital. This can now be seen on the right hand side of the street. It’s also mid way through our walking tour through Holborn and Bloomsbury. Originally opened in 1852 by Charles West. It was the ‘Hospital for Sick Children’. Charles Dickens was a big supporter writing “Our children perish out of our homes, not because there is in them an inherent dangerous sickness… but because there is, in respect of their tender lives, a want of sanitary discipline and a want of medical know.ledge.”

The Madness of George III

Carry on down Great Ormond Street towards Queen’s Square . The area was named after Queen Anne and laid out in 1716. However it actually contains a statue of Queen Charlotte the wife of King George III. He had been treated at a house in the square between 1788 and 1789 by his physician Francis Willis who lived there. Sadly I can’t seem to identify exactly which one the house was. The ‘ Queen’s Larder ‘ pub is named after Queen Charlotte as she had rented a small cellar beneath the building. There she would cook and make ‘special foods’ for her husband as he received his treatment.

The cause of George III’s illness has been much debated. He had experienced a number of bouts of mania with one leading suggestion being that he had bipolar. The episode for which he was treated by Francis Willis was so serious that it led to a Regency Bill passed by parliament. His recovery was so dramatic though that the bill was pulled before it could pass the House of Lords. The apparent success in alleviating George III’s illness was seen as a major step in the recognition of the developing specialty of psychiatry

Medical Associations

The area does of course have a long association with medicine. In addition to ‘Great Ormond Street Hospital’. The square also adjoins the ‘National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery’. Also the ‘Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine’. Itself formerly known as the ‘London Homeopathic Hospital’.

Exit the square via the northern end of the square via the alley known as ‘ Queen Anne’s Walk ‘. Turn left on Guilford Street and then take a right after a few minutes on Herbrand Street . Walk up there until you reach Bernard Street . Turn right and there is the Russell Square tube station .

The Hospital for Sick Children on Great Ormond Street. This is part of our walking tour of Holborn and Bloomsbury

Russell Square Tube to the Foundling Museum

Russell Square itself is named after the family name of the Dukes of Bedford. In particular the 5th Duke, Francis Russell . He owned the land and was responsible for developing much of the area in the 17th and 18th centuries. Russell commissioned the developer James Burton to make the area available for residential use. Burton has his stamp on much of the properties around Bloomsbury to this day as a result.

Roger Fry and Post Impressionism

Across the road from the tube station look out for the Pret a Manger on the corner. There is a plaque to Roger Fry (1866 – 1934). A painter and art critic he was a leading member of the Bloomsbury Group . Fry, used to live in a property on the site and was a scholar of the old masters. He became an advocate of the developments in French painting. He coined the term ‘post-impressionism’ and was seen as the first figure to raise awareness of modern art in Britain. According to the Tate. “The taste Fry influenced was primarily that of the Anglophone world, and his success lay largely in alerting an educated public to a compelling version of recent artistic developments of the Parisian avant-garde.”

Marchmont Street

Continuing our walking tour of Holborn and Bloomsbury. Carry on down Bernard Street and take the first left onto Marchmont Street . To the immediate right is the grade 2 listed Brunswick Centre. It was designed by Patrick Hodgkinson and completed in 1972. Originally meant to be a holistic community incorporating housing, shopping and general amenities in a single development. It fell into disrepair before being renovated in 2000 . Now it stands as a vibrant place to shop and eat.

Carry on up Marchmont Street and you’ll see a number of blue plaques which the residents themselves have arranged. This followed a project with the Marchmont Association to reconnect with the history of the street. Famous residents who you will come across include the comedian Kenneth Williams at number 57. Mary Shelley the author of Frankenstein at number 87. Richard Greene the actor who starred in the ‘Adventures of Robin Hood’ lived at number 65. There are also plaques to less well known residents of the street. Take your time and have a look as you wander up.

A token in the pavement of Marchmont Street. Spot these as part of our walking tour of Holborn and Bloomsbury

Tokens on Marchmont Street

Another cute little quirk about Marchmont Street are the little tokens embedded in the pavement as you walk up. These tokens are replicas of ones found in the Foundling Hospital which was nearby. They are now remembered with the Foundling Museum a short walk away. The tokens would have been left with abandoned children. When, in 1741, the Hospital first opened its doors. Mothers were asked to ‘affix on each child some particular writing, or other distinguishing mark or token . This was so that the children ‘may be known thereafter if necessary’.

Thomas Coram and the Foundlings

At the top end of the Brunswick Centre take a right into the Marchmont Community Garden. Then enter Handel Street .The street remembers one of the foundling hospitals earliest supporters the composer George Frideric Handel . A concert arranged by Handel in 1749 raised money for the hospital and the year after he became a governor. Carry on straight down until you reach Henrietta Mews . There at the end is the Foundling Museum where the Hospital is now remembered. The term ‘ foundling ‘ is historic. It would have been applied to babies which had been abandoned by their parents and cared for by others.

The Foundling Museum part of our walking tour of Holborn and Bloomsbury

To the south of the museum is Coram’s Fields , so named after the benefactor Thomas Coram . This was the original location of the hospital itself. It was established by Coram in 1739 when the site had formerly been known as ‘Lamb’s Conduit Fields’. Coram had been frequently shocked by the sight of infants exposed in the streets. Often in a dying state. He began to agitate for the foundation of a foundling hospital. A place where children and orphans who could not be properly cared for could be looked after. The resulting hospital was the result of years of campaigning and in 1741 the first babies were admitted. Another little quirk of Coram’s Fields is that even now, access is only permissible by adults, if they are accompanied by a child.

The Foundling Hospital to Gordon Square Gardens

From the museum retrace your steps back to Handel Street . Then take the junction with Hunter Street and then turn left down Tavistock Place . Walking straight down until you come to Tavistock Square. The square was developed by James Burton in 1820’s as part of the development of the Bedford estate. Thomas Cubitt was also responsible for the build of a number of the houses around the square.

Tavistock Square

Turn right on the road also known as Tavistock Square . Then walk up towards the middle of the square where there will be an entrance. At the opposite side of the road is a memorial to the victims of the 2005 London Bombings . This was where a bomb was detonated on a London bus. It killed 12 innocent people as part of a wider co-ordinated terrorist attack in London on 7 July 2005.

Opposite the memorial, in Tavistock Square itself there are a number of statues and monuments. There are statues to Mahatma Ghandi. He supposedly studied at the nearby UCL although the evidence as to whether he did any studying is unclear. The square also contains a bust of Virginia Woolf. The famous author and member of the Bloomsbury Group once lived nearby. Louisa Aldrich Blake , the first British woman to obtain the degree of ‘master of surgery’ is also remembered. She played an important role in surgical efforts during the First World War. Other notable memorials in the square include ones to the victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There is also a stone which commemorates conscientious objectors from all over the world.

Where Dickens once lived

Head towards the north eastern end of the square. Then look towards BMA House the headquarters of the British Medical Association since 1925. It was designed by Edwin Lutyens in 1911. The site was formerly one of the homes of Charles Dickens . He lived there from 1851 to 1860 though now extensively redeveloped. Here Dickens wrote ‘Bleak House’, ‘Little Dorrit’ and ‘A Tale of Two Cities’.

Gordon Square

Head west along the top of Tavistock Square towards Endsleigh Place and then take a left down Gordon Square . The square was another to be developed by Thomas Cubitt in the 1820’s. A number of the buildings were also once the homes of a number of different members of the Bloomsbury Group . The house at number 46 in particular is notable. This was where the first evenings of discussion were held. The home was lived in between 1904 and 1907 by the siblings Thoby, Adrian, Virginia and Vanessa Stephens. The latter two now being better known as Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. A number of the buildings are now owned by the nearby University College London (UCL).

Gordon Square to Euston Road

At the bottom of the square turn right towards the impressive Grade I listed Church of Christ the King. Built by John Raphael Brandon between 1851 and 1854. Head straight on along Byng Place . Head past an entrance to the UCL where if you’ve got time you could take a detour to see the famous Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. This is a university museum which is free to the public. Its also packed full of one of the most amazing collections of Egyptian and Sudanese archaeology in the world. Established by Flinders Petrie . He was one of the foremost egyptologists of his generation. In 1892 he was made aprofessor of Egyptology at UCL. He had made a whole raft of discoveries during his excavations much of which are now in the museum.

Grant Museum of Zoolology

Soon our walking tour from Holborn to Bloomsbury will conclude. Walk to the end of the road to the junction with Gower Street , turn right and walk up. There is another museum on the left hand side of the junction with University Street which is also worthy of note and also free. There, the Grant museum of Zoology can be found. Established in 1828 as a teaching collection of zoological specimens by Robert Grant. On his death he left the collection to the university. These resulted in one of the most unique and slightly disturbing collections around.

Walking from Holborn to Bloomsbury

Further up Gower Street to the right is the entrance to the UCL itself. Hidden away from the road it is the impressive main entrance to the university itself. Known as the Wilkins building it was designed by William Wilkins , the architect also responsible for the National Gallery. Work began in 1827 and then ended in 1829. That was when the funds ran out with only the portico and dome finished. The building was eventually finished in 1985 a full 158 years after the first stone was laid.

Keep going straight up Gower Street and you’ll come to Euston Road . The Euston Road and Warren Street stations nearby.

The walk around Bloomsbury and Holborn was researched during October 2017 and updated in December 2019. It was inspired by a free walk provided as part of the Bloomsbury Festival . Many thanks also to Isabel Cameron who provided a number of additional spots and tips about the area.

For more related posts from Inspiring City check out these:

A Free Historic Walking Tour around Old Street and Moorgate in London
A Curious Route Walking Tour around Whitecross Street and the Barbican
Free Walking Tour of the East End of London
Bloomsbury Locations in Sussex

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That was an impressive armchair walk/read!…. Well worth stepping out to do indeed..

Thanks Mitch, it’s a fascinating area with some great artistic links particularly with the Bloomsbury Group. Am hoping to do a follow up but we’ll see how much time I get 😉

Look forward to the follow up Stuart… Cheers!!

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London Literary Tours

Introducing Our Bloomsbury Tour

Mike and Cindy of London Literary Tours speaking about novelist Dorothy Richardson in Woburn Walk Bloomsbury as part of their walking tour about writers

Two years ago – as we came out of lockdown – we launched our St James’s Jaunt . Now we’re thrilled to have a new walking tour of Bloomsbury, featuring literary heavyweights Virginia Woolf and T S Eliot, the Bloomsbury Blast . Researching and creating it has been fascinating fun, and we can’t wait to share it with you. Here’s a few highlights…

Rebels and innovators.

Why ‘Bloomsbury Blast’? It beat other ‘title contenders’ because of our appreciation for the Vorticist magazine BLAST! featured at one stop on the tour. With its crazy pink cover and in-yer-face fonts, it postured and provoked, embodying the wild, rebellious spirit of artist and writer Wyndham Lewis , egged on by poet Ezra Pound .

Lewis’s experimental writing in BLAST! had a direct influence on Pound, T S Eliot and James Joyce — and later, Samuel Beckett. When it was published in 1914, it was exciting, extreme and shocking. It’s perhaps not the way we tend to think of ‘Bloomsbury’, because of how much the rather more genteel Bloomsbury Group defines our sense of that place and time. But, of course, every modernist writer worth their salt – Virginia Woolf and E M Forster included – was pushing the boundaries of what literature could do and represent.

Time Travel

Bloomsbury at that time was actually a hotbed of political radicals, literary originals and people wanting to find new ways of living. As we’ve developed our tour, it’s been wonderful to immerse ourselves in that world, reaching back a century or so to discover pioneering writers reaching forward to us, writers who’ve had much influence upon literature and our lives today; I’ve kept thinking about these lines from T S Eliot’s “Burnt Norton”:

“Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.”

Garden Squares

And there are things that time doesn’t change; Bloomsbury’s grand garden squares are now, as they were for those writers back then, places to stroll, to meet and to sit on a lunch break. They remain the distinguishing soul of the area and they mean a lot to people. When the sun comes out to light their trees, blossoms and blooms, a Bloomsbury square is a glorious place to be!

In those squares on our tour, we have writers watching from their windows, a chance moonlight encounter, aspiring novelists gushing about meeting their idols, an evening sherry beneath a tree, lunchtime discussions about pornography, and Virginia Woolf struck with inspiration for a new novel.

And, yes, another highlight has to be…

Virginia Woolf

We’ve always loved and admired Woolf’s work. For our St James’s Jaunt we got to know the movements of Mrs Dalloway , centring on her walk to a Bond Street florist, as well as Woolf’s experience of the London Library. This tour has given us the opportunity to trace her journey through Bloomsbury – moving from one square to another – as her life unfolds, from young Miss Stephen, shaking off her Victorian upbringing, to distinguished author enduring the Blitz.

We make a pilgrimage to four of Virginia Woolf’s addresses on the Bloomsbury Blast — including Tavistock Square, which is such an exciting Woolf location. Those years here with her husband Leonard Woolf were the heyday of the Hogarth Press, with so many big literary names of the period – E M Forster and T S Eliot included – their regular visitors. And it was here, in a basement room, where Virginia wrote To the Lighthouse , Orlando and The Waves .

Discovering New Writers

One of the joys of our St James’s Jaunt was getting to know less widely appreciated writers like Rose Macaulay and Nancy Cunard and present them to our guests. It’s been a similar experience in Bloomsbury…

Dorothy Richardson is an absolute gem. She came to live in Bloomsbury as a young single woman and worked as a dentist’s secretary. Her experiences during the years she spent here – including an affair with H G Wells – provide rich autobiographical material for her Pilgrimage novels, in which she developed an original style of writing that influenced Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield.

Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore is a colossus of world literature, the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize, and he’s as big as it gets in India and Bangladesh where his plays, novels, stories, poems and songs are a seminal part of the culture. We focus on his time in Bloomsbury and the poetry that made such a splash with writers here, in particular Irish poet W B Yeats , a long-term resident of Bloomsbury who also features on the tour.

And there’s Charlotte Mew , singular, lonely and stoic, whose extraordinary poetry we celebrate. We’ve absolutely come to appreciate why Siegfried Sassoon said she was “the only poet who can give me a lump in my throat”, and we’re sure our guests will too.

Unsung Heroes

And there’s Harold Monro , an incredible unsung hero whose Poetry Bookshop – a shop, a publishing house and so much more – exerted an influence on literature that can’t be overestimated. Monro was assisted by Alida Klementaski , and together they created a place that gave poetry a ‘centre’; it was ‘happening’ here in Bloomsbury.

Harold and Alida cut through the snootiness around poetry. They took it out of rich people’s salons and made it accessible, hosting weekly readings open to everyone. Readers who worked nearby – secretaries, nurses, clerks — went to the bookshop and rubbed shoulders with massive (or soon-to-be massive) figures like W B Yeats, Edith Sitwell, D H Lawrence and T S Eliot. These writers knew its value, and the part Monro had played in their growing reputations; they were never too grand to attend an event at the bookshop in what was a slum area of Bloomsbury. It was, as Osbert Sitwell said, ‘a great meeting place’.

Meetings and Networks

With so many domestic settings, ‘Bloomsbury’ was a lot about writers and artists getting together in people’s homes and eating, drinking and talking until the small hours. There’s the Bloomsbury Group, obviously, Yeats’s Monday ‘at-homes’, impromptu coffee-fuelled gatherings in Hilda Doolittle ’s bedsit, Harold Monro’s sherry parties, meals to launch avant-garde publications — writers getting together and encouraging each other, or bitching and arguing, but always spurring each other on.

They enabled each other’s work to get into print – by forming a publishing house, by founding or editing a periodical, or, in Eliot’s case, by being made a director of Faber & Faber . And all the while they’re reviewing each other’s work in those periodicals and in newspapers.

And they’re writing about their own lives, writing each other into their work, sometimes obliquely, sometimes directly in autobiography, sometimes changing each other’s names, sometimes satirising each other as characters in novels, sometimes in full-on attacks.

Unrequited Lovers

Love unreciprocated makes for powerful poetic fodder, and it can’t be avoided in Bloomsbury. There’s Yeats’s troubled obsession with Maud Gonne, Charlotte Mew’s sad infatuation with May Sinclair, Hilda Doolittle’s powerful fascination with D H Lawrence , and then there’s T S Eliot’s poignant love letters to Emily Hale.

Hale was Eliot’s fellow student at Harvard. He never declared his love for her there and lived to regret it. And when things went bad with his English wife Vivienne, who had serious mental health issues, he wrote to Emily.

Cindy had a special day while researching for the tour. She was at Bloomsbury’s own British Library, working on T S Eliot, and she thought, wait a minute, where in the Faber building was Eliot’s office? She found out and, when the library closed, she walked to Russell Square and saw that Eliot’s office looked out on Woburn Square. It’s changed, of course, but that’s what Tom was looking out on – those trees and lilacs — when he was alone in his office writing those secret, sacred letters to Emily in America. Very moving.

And finally… Bookshops

Bloomsbury is blessed with some wonderful bookshops – independent, second-hand, specialist – and it’s been a pleasure (though quite an expensive one) to discover them. What better way to spend a Saturday afternoon after our literary tour of Bloomsbury, than enjoy lunch in a neighbourhood café or pub, then browse in bookshop heaven?!

We hope to see you very soon for a Bloomsbury Blast !

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Women of Bloomsbury Walking Tour

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UCL Walking Tour

19 April 2024, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm

Explore the rich and radical history of UCL, one of the world’s leading universities in the heart of London, on this free tour every Friday.

This event is free.

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Founded in 1826, UCL has been at the forefront of radical and disruptive thinking for nearly 200 years. Join us as we explore UCL’s campus and delve deeper into the researchers, students and stories that have helped shape the UCL of today.

We will be running tours every Friday. The tour will start at 12:30 pm and last an hour to we will be running one tour every week, with the tour taking place every Friday. The tour will start at 12:30pm and last roughly an hour.

We advise all visitors to arrive 10 minutes prior to the start of the tour.

Please note that you will need to book an individual ticket for everyone attending the tour.

Accessibility - We want to make sure everyone can enjoy the tour. Please let us know when you book if you have any additional access needs. The tour is wheelchair-accessible and sign language interpreters are available upon request. However, we are not able to provide wheelchairs.

Departure point - The Tour will depart from North Lodge Welcome Point, which is situated at the entrance to the UCL Main Quad on Gower Street. It is the building to the left as you come through the main gates. Please look out for our student ambassadors who are on hand to walk you through UCL’s history.

If you need to get in touch please contact us on: [email protected] .

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