Its neat blocks of row houses interspersed with private parks became a model for urban planning, and the location there of the British Museum and the headquarters of the University of London helped it become a center for learning.
One mile north of Charing Cross, it was established on land owned by the Duke of Bedford in the mid-19th century. Its neat blocks of row houses interspersed with private parks became a model for urban planning, and the location there of the British Museum and the headquarters of the University of London helped it become a center for learning. FTP name this London district, home to such intellectuals as John Maynard Keynes, Clive Bell, Lytton Strachey, and Virginia Woolf.
One mile north of Charing Cross, it was established on land owned by the Duke of Bedford in the mid-19th century.
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