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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Queen’s Yard
It is in the west of Bloomsbury, being a short yard running east off Tottenham Court Road, south of Pancras Street
It appears, unnamed, on Horwood’s map of 1799, when it led through to a big factory
This site was undeveloped fields until the end of the eighteenth century
It may have been named after an adjacent pub
No numbers appear on Horwood’s maps
In the twentieth century it became known as Queen’s Yard
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