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The common English row house

3. (facing page). **London.** Part of the Bedford Estate on the map of 1870; the model for all later developments of terraces, squares, and regularity in general. Bloomsbury Square at the south end dates from the 1660s onwards. Russell Square from around 1800. Most of the northern parts were built during the 1820s.

4. **London.** Bloomsbury Square. begun 1661, as depicted in the middle of the eighteenth century, with Bedford House at its northern end.

5. The same northern side of Bloomsbury Square; around 1800 Bedford House made way for Bedford Place and its terraces.