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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "BLOOMSBURY":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Bloomsbury	Warwickshire	Bloomsbury , NE. suburb of Birmingham, N.Warwickshire.	Bartholomew
  BLOOMSBURY	Warwickshire	BLOOMSBURY , a suburb of Birmingham; in the NE of the borough. It has a station, jointly with Nechells, on the Birmingham	Imperial
  BLOOMSBURY, or St. George-Bloomsbury	Middlesex	BLOOMSBURY , or St. George-Bloomsbury, a parish, which is also a subdistrict, in the district of St. Giles, Middlesex; in Finsbury	Imperial
  CHRISTCHURCH	Derbyshire Gloucestershire Leicestershire London Staffordshire	Bloomsbury, Bolton, Bradford in Wilts, Bradford in Yorkshire, Brighton, Bristol, Brixton, West Bromwich, Burton-upon-Trent, Camberwell, Carlisle, Chelsea, Cheltenham	Imperial
  EMLAGH, or IMLAGH	Meath	Bloomsbury. Here is a large bog, which supplies the surrounding country with fuel. It is a rectory, in the diocese	Lewis:Ireland
  FINSBURY	Middlesex	Bloomsbury, St. George-the-Martyr-Holborn, St. Giles-in-the-Fields, St. Luke, Stable-Inn, Stoke-Newington, Charter-House, Glasshouse	Imperial
  GILES (St.)	Middlesex	Bloomsbury, conterminate with the parish of St. George-Bloomsbury; St. Giles-South, comprising all parts of the parish of St. Giles	Imperial
  GILES (St.)-IN-THE-FIELDS	Middlesex	Bloomsbury, £299, 540. Rated property of St. G. alone, £132, 836. Pop. in 1851, 37, 407; in 1861, 36, 684. Houses	Imperial
  GRAYS INN LANE	Middlesex	sides, by the parishes of Clerkenwell, St. Giles, and St. George Bloomsbury. Acres, 155. Pop., 27, 808. Houses, 2, 887.	Imperial
  LONDON	London London	Bloomsbury, Red Lion, Bloomsbury, Russell, Torrington, Woburn, and Bedford. squares; in Marylebone, Blandford, Harewood, Dorset, Montague, Bryanston, Portman, Manchester, and Cavendish	Imperial
  MONKSTOWN	Dublin	Bloomsbury, of J. Pim, Esq.; Windsor, of M. Thunder, Esq.; Ashton Park, of A. Thunder, Esq.; Monkstown House, of Capt	Lewis:Ireland
  NEWTOWN	Meath	Bloomsbury; and it comprises 1010 ¾ statute acres of tolerably good land, chiefly in tillage. Newtown, formerly belonging to the Meredyth	Lewis:Ireland
  PANCRAS (St.)	Middlesex	Bloomsbury, St. George-the-Martyr, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, and St. James-Westminster, are all within St. Pancras parish	Imperial
  St George Bloomsbury	Middlesex	Bloomsbury , eccl. dist., forming part of St Giles in the Fields and St George Bloomsbury par., Middlesex, in bor. of Finsbury	Bartholomew
  St Giles in the Fields and St George Bloomsbury	Middlesex	St Giles in the Fields and St George Bloomsbury , par., Middlesex, in bor. of Finsbury, 245 ac., pop. 45,382.	Bartholomew
  TELTOWN, or KILLALTON	Meath	Bloomsbury, comprises 4060 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act; about one-third is in tillage, and the remainder	Lewis:Ireland
  TOTTENHAM-COURT	Middlesex	Marylebone and Bloomsbury. Acres, 145. Pop. in 1861, 29,371; of whom 568 were in the Strand workhouse. Houses, 2,603.	Imperial

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