Northington Street, WC1N
Brunswick Square, Bloomsbury. Leafy squares characterise the Bloomsbury district of London. Brunswick Square was originally part of the recreation grounds of the Foundling Hospital.
Credit: Stephen McKay
Northington Street was named after Robert Henley, 1st Earl of Northington, Lord Chancellor in the 1760s.


Before 1937 it had been called Little James Street.

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