Euston Square Gardens

Euston Square Gardens is a public garden on Euston Road in the London Borough of Camden.

The gardens in March 2008

The gardens are the northern gardens of the former residential Euston Square, the southern gardens were renamed Endsleigh Gardens.[1]

The gardens are enclosed by railings and covered with grass and London plane trees.[1] The two lodges at the gardens date from 1870 and were once the entrance to Euston station. They are inscribed with the names of the London and North Western Railway.[1]

A worksite for the future Euston St Pancras railway station will be situated at the gardens.[2] It was revealed in January 2021 that protestors had built a 100ft tunnel under the gardens as part of protests against the planned High Speed 2 railway.[3] Nine activists occupied the tunnels as part of the protest.[4]

HS2 protestors in September 2020
Euston Square Gardens sign in 2020

Historic maps
  • The East and West Euston Square Gardens at the centre of an 1874 Ordnance Survey map[5]
  • The evolution of the gardens are visible on this 1895 Ordnance Survey map after renaming[6]
  • The encroaching boundaries of Euston railway station to the gardens are visible on this 1953 Ordnance Survey map[7]

References
  1. "Euston Square Gardens". London Gardens Online - Euston Square Gardens. London Parks & Gardens Trust. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
  2. "Crossrail 2 factsheet: Euston St Pancras station" (PDF). October 2015. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
  3. Diane Taylor (27 January 2021). "On Swampy ground: a brief history of protest tunnelling in the UK". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  4. Taylor, Diane (1 February 2021). "'I couldn't be prouder': Swampy and 16-year-old son in HS2 tunnel protest". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 1 February 2021. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  5. 1874 Ordnance Survey map, Digimap. Retrieved 5 March 2018. (subscription required)
  6. 1895 Ordnance Survey map, Digimap. Retrieved 5 March 2018. (subscription required)
  7. 1953 Ordnance Survey map, Digimap. Retrieved 5 March 2018. (subscription required)
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