Marchmont Street is located in the

London Borough of Camden The London Borough of Camden () is a London borough in Inner London. Camden Town Hall, on Euston Road, lies north of Charing Cross. The borough was established on 1 April 1965 from the area of the former boroughs of Hampstead, Holborn, and ...

. It is the main

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serving southern Kings Cross and eastern Bloomsbury. It links the Brunswick Centre and

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at its south to Tavistock Place at its north, where it becomes Cartwright Gardens. The street is almost entirely commercial, with small retailers covering the northern half of the street, and a large hotel and the regenerated shopping centre covering the southern half. The Marchmont Association, which serves the entirety of the area between

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and

Gray's Inn Road Gray's Inn Road (or Grays Inn Road) is an important road in the Bloomsbury district of Central London, in the London Borough of Camden. The road begins at the City of London boundary, where it bisects High Holborn, and ends at King's Cross and ...

, is based on Marchmont Street, where it has a street-front office. The street is home to Gay's The Word - one of three LGBT bookshops in the country - and

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. The street was built in the first decade of the 19th century. Most of the western side of Marchmont Street (numbers 39–73) is Grade-II listed, as is the Brunswick Centre, which makes up most of its eastern side. The English actor and comedian

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lived on the street for a significant time, and is honoured with a blue plaque on his former residence.

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