Bedford Estate

For the original house on the site, see Bedford House (Strand).

Entrance to the Bedford Estate office in Montague Street
Looking north across Bloomsbury Square on the Bedford Estate with Bedford House behind, c. 1725, London town house of the Dukes of Bedford
Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford, statue by Richard Westmacott in Russell Square on the Bedford Estate
John Norden's map of 1593 map, showing the Bedford Covent Garden Estate not long after it was acquired by John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford (c. 1485–1554/55), granted by King Henry VIII after the dissolution of the monasteries in 1540

The Bedford Estate is an estate in central London owned by the Russell family, which holds the peerage title of Duke of Bedford. The estate was originally based in Covent Garden,[1] then stretched to include Bloomsbury in 1669.[2] The Covent Garden property was sold for £2 million in 1913 by Herbrand Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford, to the MP and land speculator Harry Mallaby-Deeley, who sold his option to the Beecham family for £250,000; the sale was finalised in 1918.[3]

  1. ^ "The Bedford Estate - Covent Garden and the seven acres in Long Acre". British History Online. Retrieved 23 August 2010.
  2. ^ History Archived 2010-06-16 at the Wayback Machine, The Bedford Estates, Bloomsbury, London, UK.
  3. ^ "The Bedford Estate – The Sale of the Estate". British History Online. Retrieved 27 July 2010.