Bloomsbury Square
Bloomsbury Square is a garden square. Visitors find it inside Camden’s built-up area. The register lists it as a Grade II listed park and garden.
Garden in Camden
Inside Camden
Bloomsbury Square is inside Camden’s built-up area, with 396 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓
Grade II listed park and garden
On the official list of protected heritage; Camden has 1,889 listed buildings in all, on its History page. About ↓
Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Weather, month by month
In Camden, May to September bring the warmest days: highs of 18–23°C.
Bloomsbury Square
9 Wikipedia editions have an article on it. Add British Museum, 300 m away, to a visit; it leads 601 places within 15 km.
- Type
- Garden
- Listed
- Grade II listed park and garden
- Wikipedias
- Covered in 9 languages
- Town
- in Camden
Bloomsbury Square on the map
The map puts Bloomsbury Square in orange and numbers its neighbours as in the list.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · The dashed line is Camden’s built-up area. · ONS built-up area 2022
Where people come from
Of these 8 towns, the largest is Lambeth (317,108 people). Pick a base: each town is a page of its own, with what else there is to see.
Camden
Westminster
City of London
Islington
Compare the 8 towns
| Town | Where Bloomsbury Square is | People | Places to visit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camden | It’s in town | 209,342 | 458 |
| Westminster | 500 m west of it | 203,571 | 461 |
| City of London | 700 m east of it | 7,820 | 432 |
| Islington | 900 m north of it | 216,309 | 425 |
| Lambeth | 1.3 km south of it | 317,108 | 450 |
| Southwark | 1.5 km southeast of it | 307,076 | 471 |
| Tower Hamlets | 1.7 km east of it | 311,072 | 430 |
| Hackney | 2.2 km northeast of it | 258,464 | 407 |
After Bloomsbury Square
Also close at hand are 2 cathedrals, 2 attractions and a museum, among 601 within 15 km.
Big drawMuseumBritish Museum300 m away · 5.8M visitors a year (2023)2
Big drawArt galleryNational Gallery1.2 km away · 709K visitors a year (2021)3
Cathedral · English HeritageWestminster Abbey2.2 km away4
Historic houseBuckingham Palace2.4 km away5
AttractionElizabeth Tower2 km away6
AttractionLondon Eye1.7 km away7
Big drawCastleTower of London3.4 km away · 2.7M visitors a year (2016)8
CathedralSt Paul's Cathedral1.8 km awayWithin 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.
Bloomsbury Square: common questions
Where is Bloomsbury Square?
Bloomsbury Square is in Camden, London, inside the town’s built-up area.
What is Bloomsbury Square?
Garden square in Holborn, Camden, London.
When is the best time to visit Bloomsbury Square?
May to September are the warmest months in Camden, with afternoon highs of 18–23°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).
Is Bloomsbury Square a listed building?
Yes: Grade II listed park and garden.
What else is there to see near Bloomsbury Square?
Within 15 km: British Museum (300 m), National Gallery (1.2 km), Westminster Abbey (2.2 km) and Buckingham Palace (2.4 km).
Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.
Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (9)
- Bloomsbury Square: Schlaier, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- British Museum: Ham, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- National Gallery: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Westminster Abbey: Σπάρτακος, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Buckingham Palace: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Elizabeth Tower: Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- London Eye: Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tower of London: Bob Collowan, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- St Paul's Cathedral: Mark Fosh, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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