I leave Tavistock Square and continue along Woburn Place to Russell Square which again takes no more than 10 minutes. Russell Square is named after the Earls and Dukes of Bedford whose surname was Russell. There is a statue of Francis Russell 5th Duke of Bedford who is responsible for much of the development of central Bloomsbury, which is the medical and academic quarter of London. The square appears in various novels, notably Thackeray's Vanity Fair, Virginia Woolf's Night And Day, John Dickson Carr's The Hollow Man and Alan Hollinghurst's The Swimming Pool Library. It was also the location of Channel 4's Black Books. Personally the Square was nothing special, there is family run cafe that has been there since 1981.
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