Estates in Bloomsbury
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1 Duke of Bedford
2 City of London Corporation
3 Capper Mortimer
4 Fitzroy (Duke of Grafton)
5 Somers
6 Skinners' (Tonbridge)
7 Battle Bridge
8 Lucas
9 Harrison
10 Foundling Hospital
11 Rugby
12 Bedford Charity (Harpur)
13 Doughty
14 Gray's Inn
15 Bainbridge–Dyott (Rookeries)
Area between the Foundling and Harrison estates: Church land
Grey areas: fragmented ownership and haphazard development; already built up by 1800
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About the Bedford Charity (Harpur) Estate
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Emerald Street
Also known as Green Street
Not to be confused with Green Street, Grosvenor Square, Green Street, Leicester Square, or any other Green Street in London
It formed one of the boundaries of the Bedford Charity (Harpur) estate after 1654
It was originally named either after Edmond Greene (headmaster of Bedford School) or after the nearby bowling green and cockpit area
In the late nineteenth century there was a rear entrance here to French’s Dairy in Chapel Street
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