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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Bloomsbury like this:
BLOOMSBURY, a suburb of Birmingham; in the NE of the borough. It has a station, jointly with Nechells, on the Birmingham and Derby railway.
Bloomsbury is now part of BIRMINGHAM District. Click here for graphs and data of how BIRMINGHAM has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Bloomsbury itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Bloomsbury, in Birmingham and Warwickshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/26289
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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