Tavistock Square

The West End


Tavistock Sq, the 'square of peace', contains a statue of Mahatma Gandhi, a memorial to wartime conscientious objectors and a cherry tree recalling the WWII bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was the scene of one of the four suicide bombings in central London in July 2005.

Transportation

  • underground: Russell Sq or Euston Sq

Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby The West End attractions

1. Gordon Square

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The centre of literary Bloomsbury was Gordon Sq, where some of the buildings are marked with blue plaques.

2. St Pancras Church

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This striking Greek Revival church has a tower designed to imitate the Temple of the Winds in Athens, a portico with six Ionic columns and a wing…

3. Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology

0.19 MILES

With some 80,000 artefacts, this is one of the most impressive collections of Egyptian and Sudanese archaeology in the world. The old-fashioned displays…

4. Wellcome Collection

0.24 MILES

Focusing on the interface of art, science and medicine, this clever and resourceful museum is fascinating. The museum's heart is Sir Henry Wellcome's…

5. Brunei Gallery

0.24 MILES

Part of the University of London's School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), this gallery features permanent displays and exhibitions of art from…

6. Grant Museum of Zoology

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This fascinating and little-known museum contains 68,000 specimens from the animal kingdom, including many that are extinct or critically endangered…

7. Russell Square

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At the heart of Bloomsbury and originally laid out in 1800 by Humphrey Repton, Russell Sq was dark and bushy until a striking facelift early in the new…

8. Wiener Library

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The Wiener Library was established by German Alfred Wiener in 1933 to document the rise of anti-Semitism in his home country, from which he had fled in…

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