Bedford Estate

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Entrance to the Bedford Estate office in Montague Street
town house
of the Dukes of Bedford
Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford, statue by Richard Westmacott in Russell Square on the Bedford Estate
King Henry VIII after the dissolution of the monasteries
in 1540

The Bedford Estate is an estate in

Beecham family for £250,000; the sale was finalised in 1918.[3]

History

In 1669, the Bloomsbury Estate came into ownership of the Russell family when William, son of

William Russell, 1st Duke and 5th Earl of Bedford (1616–1700), married Lady Rachel Vaughan, one of the daughters of Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton (1607–1667).[2]
She had recently inherited the agricultural fields now known as Bloomsbury from her father.

Humphrey Repton
, who had impressed Francis Russell with his work on the Woburn estate.

The development of Bloomsbury was continued by Francis Russell's brother,

Covent Garden Market to the south of the main estate.[4]

Sir Thomas Beecham
(1879–1961) in 1918.

The Bedford Estates

The British Museum and the University of London replaced large parts of the estate and the remnants are owned by The Bedford Estates,[5] mainly residential property that has been converted for office and hotel use, together with private residential property.[2] The company is the largest private landowner in Bloomsbury and is managed from the Bedford Office in Montague Street, within the estate.[5]

Geography

The main Bedford Estate originally extended between

Covent Garden Estate north of the Strand was also part of the Bedford Estate.[4]

Garden squares in the main Bedford Estate include:

In the northern separate part of the Bedford Estate is Harrington Square. The neighbouring Ampthill Square Estate is built on what was previously another garden square, Ampthill Square.

See also

  • Covent Garden Estate

Other large privately owned historic estates in London include:

References

  1. ^ "The Bedford Estate - Covent Garden and the seven acres in Long Acre". British History Online. Retrieved 23 August 2010.
  2. ^ a b c d History Archived 2010-06-16 at the Wayback Machine, The Bedford Estates, Bloomsbury, London, UK.
  3. ^ "The Bedford Estate – The Sale of the Estate". British History Online. Retrieved 27 July 2010.
  4. ^
    English heritage
    , 1970.
  5. ^ a b What we do Archived 2010-08-28 at the Wayback Machine, The Bedford Estates, Bloomsbury, London, UK.

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