List of garden squares in London
This is a list of garden squares broadly defined.
This list comprises all places equivalent to the paradigm garden square and so qualify as a garden square in London. Unlike the list at Squares in London, which partially overlaps, these places all have a clear communal garden element and may be named other than Square; commonly in order, Gardens, Crescent, Place, Fields and Circus reflecting the diversity of the city's complex street layout. Non-square instances are only in this list if strongly, inherently notable for architecture, use or size – a common selectivity in the study of the history and use of such spaces.
The list deliberately avoids many similar public greens, verges and crescents outside of Central London. So too the few large public green places (Common or Park) away from the City which are not shrouded by six-foot (or more) walls even if faced conspicuously by buildings.
Some officially named Squares (streets and/or spaces) in London are triangular or a circle (circus). For instance Walcot and Wilton Squares are triangular, Hanover Square is an oval as to the garden, many are very elongated rectangles such as Bryanston Square — thus the London internal communal garden or park fronted by buildings, is not confined to squares of the main dictionary definition. Truest garden squares meet the recognisable criteria of a shared internal zone, faced chiefly by buildings' fronts having one or more open approach ways, so are not beholden to legal name nor precise shape.
Garden courtyards are commonly omitted from this list, for having been intuitively named 'Gardens' or 'Garden Apartments', or for a communal garden which is not large enough to meet traditional definitions of garden squares and so is unlikely to open for open-day visits.
Several items at List of Squares in London, a list of places named "... Square", have lost a shared hemmed-in zone with multi-estate neighbouring buildings, removing their square status, and making them town squares, remnants in name only, or private courtyards.
Barnet[]
Brent[]
Bromley[]
Camden[]
- Argyle Square
- Bedford Square
- Bloomsbury Square
- Brunswick Square
- Camden Square
- Coram's Fields
- Chalcot Square
- Euston Square
- Gainsborough Gardens
- Gordon Square
- Gray's Inn Square
- Harrington Square
- Mecklenburgh Square
- Mornington Crescent, London
- Queen Square, London
- Red Lion Square
- Regent Square
- Russell Square
- Tavistock Square
- Torrington Square
- Woburn Square
City of London[]
- Bunhill Fields (within London Borough of Islington)
- Finsbury Circus
- Monkwell Square
- Paternoster Square
- Salisbury Square
- Warwick Square
Hackney[]
- Clapton Square
- Fassett Square
- London Fields
- Hoxton Square
Hammersmith & Fulham[]
- Brompton Park
- Brook Green
- Colehill Gardens
- Imperial Square
- Lillie Square
- Queen's Club Gardens
- St Peter's Square, London
- Weaver's Terrace
- Westcroft Square
Islington[]
- Barnsbury Square
- Canonbury Square
- Charterhouse Square
- Claremont Square
- Cloudesley Square
- Finsbury Square
- Gibson Square
- King Square
- Lloyd Square
- Lonsdale Square
- Milner Square
- Myddelton Square
- Northampton Square
- Thornhill Square
Kensington and Chelsea[]
- Arundel Gardens
- Ashburn Place
- Barkston Gardens
- Bina Gardens
- Blenheim Crescent
- The Boltons
- Bolton Gardens
- Bramham Gardens
- Cadogan Place
- Cadogan Square
- Cambridge Gardens
- Collingham Gardens
- Colville Gardens
- Colville Square
- Courtfield Gardens
- Earl's Court Square
- Edwardes Square
- Egerton Gardens
- Elgin Crescent
- Elm Park Gardens
- Ennismore Gardens
- Gledhow Gardens
- Harrington Gardens
- Hans Place
- Hereford Square
- Kensington Square
- Kensington Park Gardens
- Lansdowne Crescent, London
- Lennox Gardens
- Lowndes Square
- Nevern Square
- Markham Square
- Onslow Square
- Paultons Square
- Pelham Crescent
- Pembroke Square
- Philbeach Gardens
- Princes Gardens, London
- Powis Square
- Queen's Gate Gardens
- Redcliffe Square
- Royal Crescent, London
- Sloane Square
- Stanley Gardens and Stanley Crescent, Holland Park
- Stanhope Gardens
- St James's Gardens
- Tavistock Crescent
- Thurloe Square
- Warwick Square
- Wellington Square
- Wetherby Gardens
Kingston upon Thames[]
Lambeth[]
- Bonnington Square
- Cleaver Square
- Walcot Square
- Becondale Road [1]
Southwark[]
Tower Hamlets[]
- Arbour Square
- Arnold Circus, the Boundary Estate
- Ford Square
- Tredegar Square
Wandsworth[]
Westminster[]
- Berkeley Square
- Belgrave Square
- Bryanston Square
- Cavendish Square
- Chester Square
- Craven Hill Gardens[n 1]
- Dolphin Square
- Dorset Square
- Eaton Square
- Eccleston Square
- Golden Square
- Grosvenor Square
- Hanover Square, London
- Hyde Park Square
- Leicester Square
- Lincoln's Inn Fields
- Manchester Square
- Montagu Square
- Oxford Square
- Park Square, London
- Parliament Square
- Porchester Square
- Portman Square
- Soho Square
- St George's Square
- St James's Square
- Smith Square
- Trafalgar Square
- Victoria Square, London
- Warwick Square
- Wilton Crescent
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "London Gardens Online". Archived from the original on 2017-03-13.
- ^ Craven Hill Gardens has two gardens, one being the small main square
External links[]
- Lists of places in London
- Parks and open spaces in London
- Garden squares in London