Editing Bloomsbury (section)

===Boundaries===
The formal historic boundaries of the combined parish of ''St Giles in the Fields and St George Bloomsbury'' (as adjusted in some places to reflect the modern street pattern) include Tottenham Court Road to the west, Torrington Place (formerly known, in part, as Francis Street) to the north, the [[London Borough of Camden|borough boundary]] to the south and [[Marchmont Street]] and [[Southampton Row]] to the east.
[[File:Holborn Met. B Ward Map 1952.svg|thumb|Wards of the Metropolitan Borough of Holborn, 1952. Bloomsbury and St Giles (including most of Lincoln's Inn) were sub-divided but retained their identity]]

The western boundary of Tottenham Court Road is common to all and a northern limit of Euston Road is often understood, though Coram's Fields and the land to the north, consisting mainly of blocks of flats, built as both private and social housing was traditionally associated as being north Bloomsbury with Judd Street and its surrounding squares being part of St Pancras, King's Cross.

The eastern boundary is sometimes taken to be in the region of Southampton Row<ref>London for Dummies, Donald Olson, p93</ref> or further east on Grays Inn Road.<ref name=LondonEncyc/> The southern extent is taken to approximates to [[High Holborn]] or the thoroughfare formed by [[New Oxford Street]], Bloomsbury Way and Theobalds Road.

On the west side, the traditional and various informal definitions of the area are all based on the ancient [[Tottenham Court Road]]. The differences between the formal and more recent understandings of the area (to the north and south), seem to derive from Bloomsbury having been commonly misconceived as being coterminous with the [[Bedford Estate]].<ref>link to a Bloomsbury history website https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-project/streets/bedford_ducal.htm {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210726222638/https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-project/streets/bedford_ducal.htm |date=26 July 2021 }}</ref>