Bloomsbury is an area of central London, in the Borough of Camden, named after early landowner William de Blemund who acquired the land in 1201.
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.
The area gives its name to the Bloomsbury Group of artists of the early 1900s, and to the lesser-known BloomsburyGang of Whigs formed in 1765 by John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford.