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46: 236: 35: 64: 740: 262:'s map of 1746 it was named just James Street and Northington Street was named Dennis's Passage before it became fully built up. James Court once existed opposite Dennis's Passage. It was James Street too in John Lockie's gazetteer of 1813 but by then Dennis's Passage had become Little James Street. In 1799, 273:'s guide as "a gem" and its mostly terraced houses as "unusually uniform for their date". The majority of the buildings are listed by Historic England at grade II or II* level. The architecture is in the 45: 765: 760: 277:
with the exception of Millman Place, a post-war development on the east side at the north end that extends into Millman Street via a second floor pedestrian bridge.
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and described as "the mouthpiece of Bloomsbury liberalism", was published from No. 38 in the 1920s. It eventually merged and became the
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were both based in the street. The street has almost all its original buildings with minimal external changes. It is described in
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on number 16 dates Great James Street to 1721. The street was named after James Burgess who worked with
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The street has almost all its original buildings with minimal external changes. It is described in
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The street has strong literary and publishing connections and former residents include:
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and his wife Frances Tichborne in the development of the area including the eponymous
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Street cartouche dated 1721 and the former home of Dorothy L. Sayers at No. 24
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in the Bloomsbury district of the London Borough of Camden. It joins
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
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The poet Algernon Charles Swinburne lived at No. 3 in the 1870s.
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Topography of London: Facsimile of John Lockie's Gazetteer 1813
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in the north but is pedestrianised beyond the turning for
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had his town house in the street and died there in 1780.
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At the north end on the western side on the corner with
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Georgian architecture in the London Borough of Camden
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Street in Bloomsbury district, Camden borough, London
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(1994) 7: 627:, Vol. 41, 17 September 1927, p. 1. 563:National Heritage List for England 321:lived at No. 24 from 1921 to 1929. 14: 738: 666:; John Keay; Julia Keay (2008). 310:Critic and friend of Swinburne, 44: 33: 331:Humorist, poet, and playwright 169:and the detective story writer 558:"Rugby Public House (1271397)" 1: 494:The A to Z of Georgian London 363:lived at No. 22 in the 1960s. 314:, lived at No. 15 in 1872/73. 304:lived at No. 26 in the 1840s. 534:The A to Z of Regency London 469:Bebbington, Gillian. (1972) 374:, were at No. 11 until 1962. 787: 433:. New Haven & London: 339:The Nation & Athenaeum 176:The Nation & Athenaeum 167:Algernon Charles Swinburne 61: 26: 669:The London Encyclopaedia 645:. 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51°31′18″N 0°07′02″W / 51.52179°N 0.11717°W / 51.52179; -0.11717
Bloomsbury
London Borough of Camden
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Dorothy L. Sayers
The Nation & Athenaeum
John Maynard Keynes
Nonesuch Press
Nikolaus Pevsner
listed
Historic England
Bedford Row
Theobalds Road
Rugby Street
Millman Street
Northington Street

cartouche
George Brownlow Doughty
Doughty Street
John Rocque
Richard Horwood
Pevsner
Georgian style
Rugby Street
The Rugby Tavern
George Meredith

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