Alfred Place is a street in Bloomsbury, London, running between Chenies Street and Store Street.
Alfred Place is a street in Bloomsbury, London, running between Chenies Street and Store Street.
Alfred Place runs from Chenies Street in the north to Store Street in the south. It runs parallel with Ridgmount Street and Tottenham Court Road.
There is a cycle hire point at the south end of the street.
The street is home to:
The poet Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) lived in Alfred Place in 1837. [3]
Irish dramatist, James Sheridan Knowles (1784–1862), lived at number 29. [4]
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Store Street is a street in Bloomsbury, London.
This is a list of the etymology of street names in the London district of Bloomsbury. The following utilises the generally accepted boundaries of Bloomsbury viz. Euston Road to the north, Gray's Inn Road to the east, New Oxford Street, High Holborn, Southampton Row and Theobald's Road to the south and Tottenham Court Road to the west.
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