Estates in Bloomsbury
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 Capper Mortimer Estate
This estate in the north-west corner of Bloomsbury originated as the Bromfield site, later known as Brickfields, which was occupied by the farming Capper family in the eighteenth century (Survey of London, vol. 21, 1949)
It had been acquired by Hans Winthrop Mortimer of Caldwell, Derby by 1768, and residential development began at the end of the eighteenth century (Survey of London, vol. 21, 1949)
Although small, it became significant in the development of Bloomsbury
The area to the east of UCL, particularly around Mortimer Market, has also been extensively redeveloped for buildings of UCL and UCH
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Hills Place
Also known as Chenies Mews
It was a short street leading east off Huntley Street to what was then Upper Chenies Mews, in the west of Bloomsbury
It appears on Horwood’s map of 1819, although it is not named and appears to have no buildings
It is named on Weller’s map of 1868
This area was undeveloped fields until the late eighteenth century
It was still named Hills Place when the Booth poverty survey walks were carried out in the 1890s
It was eventually renamed (confusingly) as Chenies Mews, forming the east–west portion of the modern street by that name
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