is an area of
London adjacent to the
British Library at
St Pancras and south of
Camden Town .
The area was developed by the landowner
Lord Somers . The area became a home for refugees of the
French Revolution and people fleeing
Spanish rule. In the modern time the area has become home for
Bangladeshi and
Somali communitities. Somers Town also contains a sports facility used by
University College London Union sports teams for training and home matches.
Walking through Somer's Town is really interesting change from the surrounding areas. It feels completely separated from the areas that surrounding areas perhaps because there are no roads that lead through it. It is very close to St Pancras Church, the oldest Church in London, where the young Thomas Hardy beautifully arranged the gravestones around a tree to make way for the new railway.
Today Somerstown is a multicultural but poor area, where many Ethnic minorities live, there are several schools in the area and it is undergoing construction work, as well as the King's Cross area in time for the Channel Tunnel rail link.
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