Museum Street, WC1A

Road in/near Holborn, existing until now

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Museum Street is so-named since it approaches the main entrance of the British Museum.

The British Museum collection dates from 1753 with the building on the site since 1823. However the street dates from before the 14th century. It was a rural lane until the late 17th century when the growth of London caused its urbanisation.

It was at first called Peter Street which may refer to a saltpetre manufacturer which is thought to have existed there. After the area became urban, the road was the site of slum tenements.

An attempt at gentrification saw its name changed to Queen Street. It became home to parish schools for the education of local poor children.

A bookseller called Charles Mudie opened a bookshop and stationers. He explored the possibility of lending books as well as selling them and Mudie’s Select Library proved so popular that, after a decade, it moved out to larger premises. The street then became fashionable area with many of the foremost writers of the day gathering in taverns to converse. The occult Atlantis Bookshop opened on the street in 1922.

On the corner of Great Russell Street is the Museum Tavern, dating to 1723. Until 1762 the pub was called the Dog and Duck - duck hunting was popular in the ponds in the Long Fields behind Montagu House in the 18th century.

The street is now popular for cafes along with the bookshops.


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NEARBY LOCATIONS OF NOTE
British Museum British Museum was a station on the Central line, located in Holborn and taking its name from the nearby British Museum in Great Russell Street.
L’Escargot L’Escargot is one of London’s oldest restaurants.
St Giles St Giles is a district of central London, at the southern tip of the London Borough of Camden.
Tottenham Court Road Tottenham Court Road runs from St Giles’ Circus (the junction of Oxford Street and Charing Cross Road) north to Euston Road.
Weston’s Music Hall Weston’s Music Hall was a music hall and theatre that opened in 1857. In 1906, the theatre became known as the Holborn Empire.

NEARBY STREETS
Adeline Place, WC1B Adeline Place was named after Adeline Marie Russell (Bloomsbury)
Africa House, WC2A Residential block (Holborn)
Africa House, WC2B Africa House is a block on Kingsway
Alfred Place, WC1E Alfred Place was built in 1806 by a Marylebone stonemason called John Waddilove who named it after his son Alfred (Bloomsbury)
Andrew Borde Street, W1D Andrew Borde Street was situated opposite the end of Sutton Row and under the Centre Point development (St Giles)
Arab Press House, WC1V Arab Press House is located on High Holborn
Aria House, WC1V Aria House is located on Newton Street
Arne Street, WC2E Arne Street was named after the 18th century composer Thomas Arne, who was born near here (Covent Garden)
Artist House, WC1A Artist House is sited on Little Russell Street (Holborn)
Artists House, W1D Artists House is a block on Manette Street (Soho)
Aviation House, WC2B Aviation House is a building on Kingsway (Holborn)
Bainbridge Street, WC2H Bainbridge Street takes its name from Henry Bainbridge, a local resident in the 17th century
Barbon Close, WC1N Barbon Close lies off Great Ormond Street (Bloomsbury)
Barclay House, WC1N Barclay House is a building on Queen Square (Bloomsbury)
Barter Street, WC1A Barter Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area (Holborn)
Bateman Street, W1D Bateman Street was named for Sir James Bateman, local landowner and Lord Mayor of London in the 1670s (Soho)
Bateman’s Buildings, W1D Bateman’s Buildings runs north from Bateman Street (Soho)
Bayley Street, WC1B Bayley Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1B postal area (Bloomsbury)
Beacon House, WC2B Beacon House is a block on Kingsway
Beaumont Buildings, WC2B Beaumont Buildings is located on Martlett Court (Covent Garden)
Bedford Avenue, WC1B Bedford Avenue is one of the streets of London in the WC1B postal area (Bloomsbury)
Bedford Court Mansions, WC1B Bedford Court Mansions is a block on Adeline Place (Bloomsbury)
Bedford Place, WC1B Bedford Place is one of the streets of London in the WC1B postal area (Bloomsbury)
Bedford Square, WC1B Bedford Square was designed as a unified architectural composition in 1775-6 by Thomas Leverton (Bloomsbury)
Betterton House, WC2H Betterton House is located on Betterton Street (Covent Garden)
Betterton Street, WC2E Betterton Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area (Covent Garden)
Bloomsbury House, WC1B Bloomsbury House is a block on Bedford Square (Bloomsbury)
Bloomsbury Place, WC1B The name of Bloomsbury Place is derived from William Blemund (Holborn)
Bloomsbury Square, WC1A The 4th Earl of Southampton was granted a building license for the construction of Bloomsbury Square in 1661 (Holborn)
Bloomsbury Street, WC1A Bloomsbury Street runs from Gower Street in the north to the junction of New Oxford Street and Shaftesbury Avenue in the south (Bloomsbury)
Bloomsbury Way, WC1V Bloomsbury Way - the name Bloomsbury is first noted in 1201, when Norman landowner William de Blemond acquired the land (Holborn)
Boswell Street, WC1N Boswell Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1N postal area (Bloomsbury)
Bristol House, WC1B Residential block (Holborn)
Broad Court, WC2E Broad Court is an alleyway parallel with Long Acre (Covent Garden)
Bruce House, WC2B Bruce House is sited on Kemble Street (Covent Garden)
Bucknall Street, WC2H Bucknall Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area (St Giles)
Bury Place, WC1A Bury Place is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area (Bloomsbury)
Carlisle Street, W1D Carlisle Street commemorates the former mansion of the Countess of Carlisle during the eighteenth century (Soho)
Castlewood House, WC1A Residential block (St Giles)
Catton Street, WC2B Catton Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1R postal area (Holborn)
Centre Point, WC2H Centre Point is a controversial 1960s-built tower block
Chapone Place, W1D Hester Chapone lived No 8 Dean Street in the 1770s (Soho)
Chenies Street, WC1E Chenies Street takes its name from the Buckinghamshire village where since 1556 members of the Russell family have been buried. (Bloomsbury)
Churchill House, WC1R Churchill House is located on Red Lion Square (Holborn)
Commonwealth House, WC1V Commonwealth House is a block on New Oxford Street
Congress House, WC1B Congress House can be found on Great Russell Street (Bloomsbury)
Coptic Street, WC2H Coptic Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area (Holborn)
Cosmo Place, WC1B Cosmo Place is a road in the WC1B postcode area (Bloomsbury)
Cross Court, WC2B Cross Court appears on maps between the 1750s and 1900 (Covent Garden)
Dane Street, WC1R Dane Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1R postal area (Holborn)
Dean Street, W1D Dean Street is a historically rich thoroughfare that extends from Oxford Street to Shaftesbury Avenue. (Soho)
Denmark Place, WC2H Denmark Place was an alleyway one block north of Denmark Street (St Giles)
Denmark Street, WC2H Denmark Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area (St Giles)
Dombey Street, WC1N Dombey Street is a road in the WC1N postcode area (Bloomsbury)
Drury Lane, WC2B Named from Sir William Drury, Knight of the Garter in Queen Elizabeth’s reign, who owned land on its site (Covent Garden)
Dryden Street, WC2B Dryden Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2E postal area (Covent Garden)
Dudley Court, WC2H Dudley Court is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area (Covent Garden)
Duke’s Court, WC2B Duke’s Court appears on maps made between 1750 and 1900 (Covent Garden)
Dyott Street, WC1A Dyott Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area (St Giles)
Eagle Street, WC1R Eagle Street runs parallel to High Holborn, one block north (Holborn)
Earlham Street, WC2H Earlham Street is one of the spokes leading off of Seven Dials (Covent Garden)
Earnshaw Street, WC2H Earnshaw Street was at first called Arthur Street (St Giles)
East Street, W1T East Street is one of the streets in the Twickenham postal district (Tottenham Court Road)
Endeavour House, WC2H Endeavour House is a block on Shaftesbury Avenue (St Giles)
Endell Street, WC2H Endell Street, originally known as Belton Street, is a street that runs from High Holborn in the north to Long Acre and Bow Street in the south (Covent Garden)
Evelyn Yard, W1T Evelyn Yard is a road in the W1T postcode area (Tottenham Court Road)
Excel Court, WC2H Excel Court is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area (St Giles)
Fairgate House, WC1A Fairgate House is a block on New Oxford Street (St Giles)
Falconberg Court, W1D Falconberg Court once ran off Falconberg Mews (Soho)
Falconberg Mews, W1D Falconberg Mews runs off of Sutton Row (Soho)
Fisher Street, WC1R Fisher Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1R postal area (Holborn)
Fletcher Buildings, WC2B Fletcher Buildings is sited on Martlett Court (Covent Garden)
Flitcroft Street, WC2H Flitcroft Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area (St Giles)
Galen Place, WC1A Galen Place is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area (Bloomsbury)
Gate Street, WC2A Gate Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area
George Yard, W1D In 1936, George Yard became Goslett Yard (St Giles)
Gilbert Place, WC1A Gilbert Place is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area (Bloomsbury)
Gloucester Road, WC1N Gloucester Road is one of the streets of London in the WC1N postal area (Bloomsbury)
Goslett Yard, W1D Goslett Yard was previously George Yard, after an inn at its end (St Giles)
Grape Street, WC2H Grape Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area
Great Queen Street, WC2B Great Queen Street is a continuation of Long Acre from Drury Lane to Kingsway.
Great Russell Street, WC1A Great Russell Street commemorates the marriage of the daughter of the 4th Earl of Southampton to William Russell in 1669 (Bloomsbury)
Greek Court, W1D Greek Court is a tiny sealed-off alleyway named after a former Greek church established in 1670s (Soho)
Greek Street, W1D Greek Street leads south from Soho Square to Shaftesbury Avenue. (Soho)
Green Dragon House, WC2B Green Dragon House is a block on Stukeley Street
Gresse Street, W1T Gresse Street is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area (Tottenham Court Road)
Hanway Place, W1D Hanway Place is named for Major John Hanway (Tottenham Court Road)
Hanway Street, W1D Hanway Street was named after Major John Hanway (Tottenham Court Road)
Harpur Mews, WC1R Harpur Mews was originally the stabling for houses in Harpur Street (Bloomsbury)
Harpur Street, WC1R There are two theories about the naming of Harpur Street (Bloomsbury)
High Holborn, WC1V High Holborn was part of the old road from Newgate and the Tower to the gallows at Tyburn. (Holborn)
High Holborn, WC2B High Holborn is a road which is the highest point in the City of London - 22 metres above sea level
Hog Lane, WC2H Hog Lane was a lane that went from St Giles’ leper hospital (set up in the 12th century) to the monument to Eleanor at Charing Cross. (St Giles)
Holborn Tower, WC1V Holborn Tower is a building on High Holborn (Holborn)
Holden House, W1 Holden House is sited on Oxford Street (Tottenham Court Road)
Imperial House, WC2B Imperial House is a block on Kingsway (Aldwych)
Isis House, WC1A Isis House is a building on New Oxford Street (St Giles)
Kean Street, WC2B Kean Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area (Aldwych)
Keeley Street, WC2B Keeley Street has a dual history (Covent Garden)
Kemble Street, WC2B Kemble Street is a road in the WC2B postcode area (Covent Garden)
Keppel Street, WC1E Keppel Street links Store Street and Gower Street in the west to Malet Street in the east (Bloomsbury)
Kings Head Yard, WC2H Kings Head Yard ran off Short’s Gardens (Covent Garden)
Kingsgate Est, WC1B A street within the WC1B postcode (Bloomsbury)
Kingsgate Street, WC1R Kingsgate Street ran from High Holborn to Theobald’s Road (Holborn)
Kingsway, WC2A Kingsway is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area (Westminster)
Lacon House, WC1X Lacon House is a block on Theobald’s Road (Bloomsbury)
Lamb’s Conduit Passage, WC1R This is a street in the WC1R postcode area (Holborn)
Leverton House, WC1B Leverton House is a block on Bedford Square (Bloomsbury)
Lion Court, WC1R Lion Court is one of the streets of London in the WC1V postal area (Holborn)
Little Compton Street, W1D Little Compton Street was a street in Soho (Soho)
Little Russel Street, WC1A Little Russel Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area (Bloomsbury)
Little Russell Street, WC1A Little Russell Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area (Bloomsbury)
Little Turnstile, WC2A Little Turnstile is one of the streets of London in the WC1V postal area (Holborn)
Macklin Street, WC2B Macklin Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area
Malet Street, WC1E Sir Edward Malet was married to Lady Ermyntrude Sackville Russell, daughter of Francis Russell who owned much of the surrounding area (Bloomsbury)
Manette Street, W1D Manette Street in Soho is named after the character from Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities. (Soho)
Martlett Court, WC2B Martlett Court appears on maps from the 1750s onwards (Covent Garden)
Mercer Street, WC2H Mercer Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area (St Giles)
Met Building, W1T Met Building is a block on Percy Street (Tottenham Court Road)
Monmouth Street, WC2H Monmouth Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area (Covent Garden)
Montague Place, WC1E Montague Place was developed in the decade after 1800 (Russell Square)
Montague Street, WC1B Montague Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1B postal area (Bloomsbury)
Morwell Street, WC1B Morwell Street is a road in the WC1B postcode area (Bloomsbury)
Museum House, WC1A Museum House is a block on Museum Street (Holborn)
Museum Street, WC1A Museum Street is so-named since it approaches the main entrance of the British Museum. (Holborn)
Neal Street, WC2H Neal Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area (Covent Garden)
Neal’s Yard, WC2H Neals Yard is one of the most photographed places of London (Covent Garden)
New Academic Building, WC2A New Academic Building is located on Lincoln’s Inn Fields (Westminster)
New Compton Street, WC2H New Compton Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area (St Giles)
New North Street, WC1N New North Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1N postal area (Bloomsbury)
New Oxford Street, WC1A New Oxford Street was built in 1840 to ease congestion in St Giles High Street (Holborn)
New Oxford Street, WC2H New Oxford Street is a road in the WC2H postcode area (Holborn)
Newton Street, WC1V Newton Street is named for Isaac Newton, scientist and mathematician
Nicolas Cooper House, WC1E Nicolas Cooper House is a block on Chenies Street (Bloomsbury)
Nottingham Court, WC2H Nottingham Court is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area (Covent Garden)
Odhams Walk, WC2H Odhams Walk is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area (Covent Garden)
Old Glocester Street, WC1N Old Glocester Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1N postal area (Bloomsbury)
Old Gloucester Street, WC1N Old Gloucester Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1N postal area (Bloomsbury)
Old Glouster Street, WC1N Old Glouster Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1N postal area (Bloomsbury)
Orange Street, WC1R Orange Street disappeared from the map to be replaced by St Martin’s College of Art (now Central Saint Martins) (Holborn)
Ormond Close, WC1N Ormond Close is a road in the WC1N postcode area (Bloomsbury)
Ormond Mews Ormond Mews - also Ormond Yard - was made up of two extensive rows of mews and was situated just south of Great Ormond Street. (Bloomsbury)
Parker Mews, WC2B Parker Mews is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area
Parker Street, WC2B Parker Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area
Parker Tower, WC2B Parker Tower is a block on Parker Street
Parnell House, WC1 Parnell House is a block on Streatham Street (Bloomsbury)
Parnell House, WC1A Parnell House is a block on Streatham Street (Bloomsbury)
Percy Street, W1T Francis and William Goodge issued building leases for land on Percy Street’s south side in 1764 and north side in 1766. (Tottenham Court Road)
Phoenix House, WC2H Phoenix House is sited on Phoenix Street (St Giles)
Phoenix Street, WC2H Phoenix Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area (St Giles)
Pied Bull Court, WC1A Pied Bull Court is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area (Bloomsbury)
Pied Bull Yard, WC1A Pied Bull Yard is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area (Holborn)
Procter Street, WC1V Procter Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1V postal area (Holborn)
Proctor Street, WC1V Proctor Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1V postal area (Holborn)
Queen Square, WC1N Queen Square was laid out by speculator Nicholas Barbon (Bloomsbury)
Queens House, WC2A Queens House is a block on Lincoln’s Inn Fields (Westminster)
Rathbone Place, W1T Rathbone Place honours Captain Rathbone who was the builder of the road and properties thereon from 1718 onwards (Tottenham Court Road)
Rathbone Square, W1T Rathbone Square is a location in London (Tottenham Court Road)
Red Lion Square, WC1R Red Lion Square was built from the late 1680s by speculator Nicholas Barbon (Holborn)
Richmond Buildings, W1D Richmond Buildings is a turning off Dean Street (Soho)
Ridgmount Gardens, WC1E Ridgmount Gardens is one of the streets of London in the WC1E postal area (Bloomsbury)
Ridgmount Street, WC1E Ridgmount Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1E postal area (Bloomsbury)
Royalty Mews, W1D Royalty Mews was named after the former Royalty Theatre (1840-1938) (Soho)
Ruskin House, WC1A Ruskin House is a block on Museum Street (Holborn)
Sardinia House, WC2A Sardinia House can be found on Lincoln’s Inn Fields (Aldwych)
Sardinia Street, WC2A Sardinia Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area (Westminster)
Sardinia Street, WC2B Sardinia Street, formerly Duke Street, was a street that ran from Prince’s Street in the south to the western side of Lincoln’s Inn Fields in the north. (Aldwych)
Seven Dials, WC2H Seven Dials was built on the site of the Cock-and-Pie Fields, named for a nearby inn (Covent Garden)
Shaftesbury Avenue, WC2H Shaftesbury Avenue was named after Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, Victorian politician and philanthropist (St Giles)
Sheffield Street, WC2A Sheffield Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area (Aldwych)
Shelton Street, WC2E Shelton Street is a road in the WC2B postcode area (Covent Garden)
Shelton Street, WC2H Shelton Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area (Covent Garden)
Sheridan Buildings, WC2B Sheridan Buildings is a block on Martlett Court (Covent Garden)
Shorts Gardens, WC2H Shorts Gardens is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area (Covent Garden)
Sicilian Avenue, WC1V Sicilian Avenue is a shopping parade that diagonally runs in between Southampton Row and Bloomsbury Way (Holborn)
Soho Place, Soho Place lies within the postcode (Tottenham Court Road)
Soho Square, W1D In its early years, Soho Square was one of the most fashionable places to live in London (Soho)
Soho Street, W1D Soho Street leads north out of Soho Square (Soho)
Sounding Alley, WC2H Sounding Alley is a road in the E3 postcode area (St Giles)
Southampton Place, WC1A Southampton Place is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area (Holborn)
Southampton Row, WC1B Southampton Row is one of the streets of London in the WC1B postal area (Holborn)
Southampton Row, WC1V Southampton Row is a road in the WC1V postcode area (Holborn)
St George’s House, WC1A St George’s House is a block on Coptic Street (Holborn)
St Giles High Street, WC2H St Giles High Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area (St Giles)
St Giles House, WC2B Residential block (Covent Garden)
St Giles Passage, WC2H St Giles Passage is named after St Giles Hospital, a leper hospital founded by Matilda of Scotland, wife of Henry I in 1117 (St Giles)
St Giles Square, WC2H St Giles Square is part of a new, post-Crossrail, development (St Giles)
St Giles Square, WC2H St Giles Square is a modern piazza-style development
Stacey Street, WC2H Stacey Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area (St Giles)
Stedham Place, WC2H Stedham Place is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area (Holborn)
Stephen Street, W1T Stephen Street is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area (Tottenham Court Road)
Stewart House, WC1B Stewart House can be found on Russell Square (Russell Square)
Store Street, WC1E Store Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1E postal area (Bloomsbury)
Streatham Street, WC1A Streatham Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area (Bloomsbury)
Stukeley Street, WC2B Stukeley Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area
Summit House, WC1R Summit House is a block on Red Lion Square (Holborn)
Sutton Row, W1D Sutton Row has existed since 1681 (Soho)
The Arcade, WC2B The Arcade is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area (Covent Garden)
Thomas Neal Centre, WC2H Thomas Neal Centre is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area (Covent Garden)
Tottenham Court Road, W1T Tottenham Court Road is a major road running from the junction of Oxford Street and Charing Cross Road, north to Euston Road - a distance of about three-quarters of a mile (Tottenham Court Road)
Townsend House, W1D Residential block (Soho)
Tybalds Close, WC1N Tybalds Close is a location in London (Bloomsbury)
Vere Street, WC2B Vere Street was a street in the Lincoln’s Inn Fields area (Aldwych)
Victoria House, WC1B Victoria House is a block on Southampton Row (Holborn)
Waterman House, WC2B Waterman House is sited on Kingsway (Aldwych)
Wedgwood Mews, W1D Wedgwood Mews hosted Josiah Wedgwood’s showrooms between 1774 and 1795 (Soho)
West Central Street, WC2H West Central Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area
Weston House, WC1V Weston House is located on High Holborn (Holborn)
Wild Court, WC2B Wild Court leads west from the Kingsway
Wild Street, WC2B Wild Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area (Covent Garden)
Willoughby Street, WC1B Willoughby Street was formerly known as both Vine Street and Wooburn Street (Holborn)
Yorkshire Grey Yard, WC1V Yorkshire Grey Yard lies off of Eagle Street, WC1 (Holborn)


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