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Charles Kingsley
Charles Kingsley's novel Westward Ho! led to the founding of a town by
the same name - the only place name in England which contains an exclamation
mark - and even inspired the construction of a railway, the Bideford, Westward
Ho! and Appledore Railway. Few authors can have had such a significant effect
upon the area which they eulogised. A hotel in Westward Ho! was named for
him and it was also opened by him.
A hotel opened in 1897 in Bloomsbury, London, was named after Kingsley.
It still exists, but changed name in 2001 to the Thistle Bloomsbury.
The original reasons for the chosen name was that the hotel was
opened by teetotallers who admired Kingsley for his political and ideas on
social reform. This statue of Kingsley is situated next to Victoria
Park in Bideford.