Squares in London

Squares have long been a feature of London and come in numerous identifiable forms. The landscaping spectrum of squares stretches from those with more hardscape, constituting town squares (also known as city squares)—to those with communal gardens, for which London is a major international exponent, known as garden squares.

St. James's Square, c. 1722
Fitzroy Square

A few in the capital of the United Kingdom, such as Trafalgar Square, began as public open spaces in the same way as other city squares worldwide, typically a plaza, piazza and a platz in Spain, Italy and Germany. Most, however, began as garden squares i.e. private communal gardens for the inhabitants of surrounding houses. All types of the space are more prevalent in parts of London with high (urban) density. Some of these gardens are now open to the public, while others, for example around Notting Hill, are railed (a form of fencing) and private.

The terminology has been loosely applied for over a century. Some "squares" are irregularly shaped—including five triangles, a pentagon, hexagon, octagon, and two ovals among those officially named Square. Approbative and technical studies of garden squares commonly cover equivalent landscaped communal gardens not named as a Square many of which have become small public parks. A diversity of descriptive names features in the list of London's "garden squares".

Name and shape

"Square" is a generic term for neat, planned or set aside urban open spaces larger than a verge or pavement overlooked by buildings. In London, elements of fields were set aside, a fact reflected in the name of the square London Fields and two later examples: Coram's Fields and Lincoln's Inn Fields. Some are not actually square, or even rectangular. One reason for this is the use of a local nickname for the street, park or garden in question. Another is that some older squares were irregularly shaped to begin with, or lost their original layout due to the city's many transformations, not least following the Great Fire of London and The Blitz.

The street naming (or streetnaming) authority of each London Borough and the City of London Corporation by authority of an Act of 1939 imposes rules to authorise appropriate street names for new developments and for owners wishing to rename features.[1] Commercial building and retained historic names apart, new residential squares must in many boroughs be "for a square only" considered not well elongated but rectangular and to some extent open.[2] Billiter Square, EC3 and Millennium Square, SE1 in districts dominated by retail, commerce and offices are among many modern buildings (not beside a visible rectangular open space) that include alternative, higher built density, square features to their design—such as a courtyard or a square footprint.

Some squares are paved (Granary Square); some grass and trees (Russell Square); many others diverse communal gardens. Most of those that are actually square have the word in their name, and these are listed below. Others more flexibly identified do not. Such notable lists are commonly identified as list of garden squares or estate gardens, communal gardens, formal gardens, about which many books have been written. Increasingly, spaces are being constructed that are legally private, though in practice open to the public (Paternoster Square).

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea contains over a hundred garden squares whose use is restricted to residents, almost all share a name with their directly adjoining road. Residents may contract with private contractors or with the council, in which case the council charges those residents, typically at the same time as council tax.[3] One instance is a lens (pointed oval), The Boltons.

Toward the public end of the public/private continuum, London's growth has taken in village greens. A minority of these partly or wholly survive such as Newington Green to form council-run open spaces breaking up housing, road networks and/or retail streets. The categories of greens and garden squares become more well-visited where larger than an informal scale. These are mainly government-run, characteristic parks and open spaces in London. By subtle distinction their less urban equivalent amounts to London's 26 commons most of which were diminished in the period of legal inclosure and/or the city/county's 16 country parks.

History

Development of Squares

The making of residential squares fell into decline in the early 20th century, one of the last notable such squares having been designed by Edwin Lutyens for Hampstead Garden Suburb. Numerous squares were in danger of filling in for further building. This was banned by the London Squares Act of 1931.[4] In the last quarter of the 20th century a fashion for making office squares developed, a trend led by the Broadgate development. Developers such as London Square, Berkeley Homes and Taylor Wimpey (in the first two instances through their London subsidiaries) have built and set aside land in more than one of their 21st century London developments to create those of the residential type.[5][6][7][8][9][10] More broadly, mixed-use squares to give a focal area have become a resurgent planning design, reflected for instance in Times Square, Sutton and Canada Square, Canary Wharf.

Viewings and events in private communal gardens

Since 1998 many private squares (which term in that context takes in many other shapes of gardens between houses) temporarily open to the paying public: London's "Open Garden Squares Weekend", founded by Caroline Aldiss, takes place on the second weekend in June.[11] The event is organised by the London Parks and Garden Trust. In 2013 over 200 gardens took part, including the garden of the Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street and the Gardens of HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs. Other events in keynote squares coincide such as a World Archaeology Festival, Gordon Square, Bloomsbury run by UCL Institute of Archaeology.[12]

The parks can be categorised as public garden squares, private garden squares or other squares.

Social importance

An illuminated wire sculpture of a nightingale, displayed in London's Berkeley Square as part of Lumiere London 2018, an art festival. The sculpture and the accompanying soundtrack A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square formed an art installation titled 'Was that a dream?' by a French artist Cédric Le Borgne.[13]

The local proliferation relative to other UK cities coupled with, since the early 20th century, their widespread opening up has similarly made squares broadly cited in portrayals of London. Initially cultural use was mainly confined to novels and, to a lesser degree, fine art.

"It's a Long Way to Tipperary" is a 1910s song featuring the line "Farewell Leicester Square". "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" is a romantic hit of 1940 with lyrics by Eric Maschwitz and music by Manning Sherwin, sang that year separately by Ray Noble and Vera Lynn and a theme of a film the next year, by Fritz Lang., Man Hunt. In the 1956 song "Why Can't The English?" from the musical My Fair Lady, Professor Henry Higgins laments, "Hear them down in Soho Square/Dropping H's everywhere."

Drama most notably includes the high-audience soap opera broadcast by the BBC running since 1985, EastEnders based on a semi-permanent set north of London's border, Albert Square. It had pre-release titles Square Dance, Round the Square, Round the Houses, London Pride and East 8.[14]

Soho Square garden contains a bench that commemorates the singer Kirsty MacColl, who wrote the song "Soho Square" for her album Titanic Days. After her death in 2000, fans bought a memorial bench in her honour, inscribing the lyrics: "One day I'll be waiting there / No empty bench in Soho Square".[15] The Lindisfarne album Elvis Lives On the Moon also includes a song named after that square.[16]

Notable communal gardens surrounded by buildings

Most notable town squares

List of Greater London squares

This list comprises places bearing the word Square. The tables state if each has an open-air space exceeding a double-size pavement or the provision of parking spaces. Those marked mainly (due to a building, typically a church, school or community hall in the space) or yes have a clear, open space. Those marked No include streets of any shape including those with vestigial names (throwbacks) to open spaces that lay there (or adjacent) before.

Demolished squares are listed in a table at the end of this section.

Approximate area, in square metres, includes hardscapes and roads.

London's squares are arranged by postcode, see the map below of postcodes.

London post town postcodes

Centremost postcodes

NamePost districtOpen-to-sky area between buildingsImage
KingEC1Mainly16000
CharterhouseEC1Yes[n 1][17] 9300
NorthamptonEC1Yes6600
BreweryEC1Yes900
WaterhouseEC1Yes[n 2]1500
Coldbath
(historically Cold Bath)
EC1Yes320
St John’sEC1Yes4500[n 3]
MyddeltonEC1Yes 14000
RoseberyEC1No[n 4]600
BartholomewEC1No[n 5] 0
FinsburyEC2Mainly17000
DevonshireEC2Yes 3200[n 6]
RelianceEC2No0
MarkEC2Yes[n 7] 2400
Finsbury AvenueEC2Mainly2600
AldermanburyEC2Yes1650
ExchangeEC2Yes 5900
MonkwellEC2Yes2280
BridgewaterEC2NoA small pre-school playground 500
New InnEC2No0
TrinityEC3Yes8200
St Helen’sEC3Yes2700[n 8]
AmericaEC3Yes1000
PaternosterEC4Yes3200
SalisburyEC4Yes1280
New StreetEC4Yes1350
WarwickEC4Yes 1150[n 9]
GoughEC4Yes480
LudgateEC4No0
QueenWC1Yes 8660
Red LionWC1Mainly 7200
Gray's InnWC1Yes4430
SouthWC1Yes 2600
BloomsburyWC1Yes 12000
RegentWC1Yes 7500
MecklenburghWC1Mainly[n 10] 18000
GranvilleWC1Yes 5000
WilmingtonWC1Yes7200
LloydWC1Yes 4900
FleetWC1Yes[n 11][n 12] 1850
WellsWC1Mainly[n 12] 1400
ArgyleWC1Yes 7800
BrunswickWC1Yes[n 13] 18000
TorringtonWC1Mainly 8800
TavistockWC1Yes 18000
GordonWC1Yes 16000[n 14]
WoburnWC1Yes 6200
RussellWC1Yes 40000
BedfordWC1Yes 17000
NewWC2Yes[n 15]7000

North and northwest

NamePost districtOpen-to-sky area between buildingsImage
CanonburyN1Yes8500
UnionN1Yes5700
ArlingtonN1Yes9200
ClaremontN1Yes12000
King's Cross SquareN1Yes6900
HoxtonN1Yes6000
Lewis Cubitt SquareN1Yes5200
CharlesN1Yes2700
HighburyN5Yes9900
CloudesleyN1Mainly4800
John SpencerN1Yes5200[n 16]
De BeauvoirN1Yes12000
Old Royal FreeN1Yes2800
LonsdaleN1Yes5250
GibsonN1Yes8200
MilnerN1Yes4900
BarnsburyN1Yes7750
EdwardN1Yes5900
AlwyneN1Yes3600
WellingtonN1Yes3750
AndersonN1Yes1400
PeabodyN1Yes1350
PackingtonN1Yes2500
CanalsideN1Yes3800
Red HouseN1Yes3000
WiltonN1Yes4200[n 17]
PondN6Mainly6400
ParkNW1Yes28000
EustonNW1Yes7000
MunsterNW1Yes4400
DorsetNW1Yes8500
BlandfordNW1Yes1500 each[n 18]
ThornhillNW1Mainly[n 19]20000
ChalcotNW1Yes3600
TolmersNW1Yes2000[n 20]
OakleyNW1Yes13000[n 21]
HarringtonNW1Yes8000[n 22]
AmpthillNW1Yes5000[n 23]
ElliottNW1No0
St Mark’sNW1Mainly3000
AlmaNW8Yes2800
CamdenNW1Yes16000
Northpoint and
Caledonian
NW1No0[n 24]
TritonNW1No0
RochesterNW1No0
IslingtonN1No0
1 HamondN1No0[n 25]
HoffmanN1No0
UhuraN16No0

West and southwest

NamePost districtOpen-to-sky area between buildingsImage
EatonSW1Yes51000
VincentSW1Yes47000
BelgraveSW1Yes36000
GrosvenorW1Yes30000
St George'sSW1Mainly22000
BerkeleyW1Yes20000
PortmanW1Yes20000
EcclestonSW1Yes18000
OnslowSW7Yes17000[n 16]
WarwickSW1Yes15000
CavendishW1Yes14500
ParliamentSW1Yes14000
BryanstonW1Yes14000
RedcliffeSW10Mainly13500
DolphinSW1Mainly12000[n 26]
ThurloeSW7Yes12000
MontaguW1Yes11000
LowndesSW1Yes11000
ClevelandW2Yes10000
Kensington GardensW8Mainly10000[n 16]
KensingtonW8Yes8400
SmithSW1Mainly5900[n 27]
FitzroyW1Yes8700
NevernSW5Yes8700
ManchesterW1Yes8000
HerefordSW7Yes7400
ChelseaSW3Yes10000
CarlyleSW3Yes8200
TedworthSW3Yes4800
CadoganSW1Yes13000
EdwardesW8Yes16000
NorlandW11Yes12000
PembridgeW2Yes10000
SloaneSW1Yes6000
Duke of YorkSW3Mainly5000[n 28]
PaultonsSW3Yes6500
Earl’s CourtSW5Yes6400
EburySW1Yes6000
BromptonSW3Yes6200[n 29]
MarkhamSW3Yes4500
MontpelierSW7Yes4300
AlexanderSW3Yes4200[n 30]
OvingtonSW3Yes2600
TrevorSW7Yes2800
LindsaySW1Mainly2000
VictoriaSW1Yes1250
PearsonW1Mainly1600
WellingtonSW3Yes1500
AdmiralSW10Yes1080
ColeridgeSW10Yes1040[n 12]
St Mary’sW2Yes1250
GloucesterW2Yes8200
Hyde ParkW2Yes8000
SussexW2Yes7750
ConnaughtW2Yes6800
NorfolkW2Yes6400
SheldonW2Mainly6000
CambridgeW2Yes4200
OxfordW2Yes4200
TalbotW2Yes3000
LancerW8Yes3550
RoseSW3Yes1200[n 31]
ChantryW8Yes1200[n 32]
St AndrewsW11Yes1000
WesleyW11Yes2200
ColvilleW11Mainly3300
PorchesterW2Yes5780
PowisW11Yes4400
OrmeW11Yes1980
Prince'sW2Yes7200
LeinsterW2Yes7200
KatherineW11Yes950
Campden HillW8Yes8500
WycombeW8Yes2000
RavenscourtW6Yes3200
St Peter's SquareW6Yes13000
AshcroftW6Yes4800[n 33]
WestcroftW6Yes3200
LyricW6Yes2000
Audley, South Audley StreetW1Yes500
ChestertonW8Yes2050[n 34]
GraftonSW4Yes7500
BatterseaSW11Yes1150
RathboneW1Yes800[n 35]
Shuters (Sun Road)W14Yes800
VineW14Yes800
OrchardW14Yes600
IvorySW11Yes500
NottingdaleW11Yes[n 24]450
MacaulaySW4Yes1500[n 35]
ImperialSW6Yes2700
HurlinghamSW6Yes2620
MarryatSW6Yes950
Queen’s ElmSW3Yes900
LampeterW6No[n 36]400
RestorationSW11No510[n 35]
White'sSW4No0
PhilpotSW6No0
MortimerW11No0
St CharlesW10No0
FranklinW14No[n 11]0
FountainSW1No0
BrasseySW11No0
CavalrySW3No0

South

NamePostal districtOpen to air communal spaceImage
SurreySE1Yes18000
DickensSE1Mainly12000
AvondaleSE1Mainly10000
Trinity ChurchSE1Mainly7700[n 37]
LorrimoreSE17Mainly7400
NightingaleSW12Yes7000
SutherlandSE17Not mainly7000
AlbertSW8Yes6500
WestSE11Yes6400
ThorburnSE1Mainly6000
NelsonSE1Yes6000
PeckhamSE15Mainly5000
CleaverSE11Yes4800
PeabodySE1Yes4500[n 16]
AddingtonSE5Yes4200
St. PhilipBattersea, SW8Not mainly4000[n 38]
ProvidenceSE1Yes4000
MerrickSE1Yes3600
MontagueSE15Yes3200
WalcotSE11Yes2700[n 39]
PerkinsSE1Yes2600
BermondseySE16Yes2500
GatehouseSE1Yes2100
HelsinkiSE16Yes2000
Millennium, Shad ThamesSE1Yes1700
GreenacreSE16Yes1600[n 11]
ReveleySE16Yes420[n 11]
BrewerySE1Yes660
EdwardSE16Yes900
ElizabethSE16Yes640
FrederickSE16Yes640
HelenaSE16Yes640
SophiaSE16Yes640
WilliamSE16Yes640
New PlaceSE16Yes
3800
LockwoodSE16Yes
4800
MardenSE16Yes
5100
LayardSE16Yes
6000[n 16]
St Olavs or St Olav'sSE16Yes2000[18][19][n 16]
Great Guildford BusinessSE1Not mainly200
OsloSE16Yes2300
BergenSE16Yes1950
TillettSE16Yes200
Graphite, Vauxhall WalkSE11Yes500
Cornwall, Kennings WaySW11Yes2800[n 40]
John ParkerSW11Yes1000[n 11]
FennerSW11Yes1000[n 11]
HollidaySW11Yes1000[n 11]
WeekleySW11Yes1000[n 11]
WinchesterSE1Mainly730
CobaltVauxhall, SW8Yes1500
St Georges or Saint George'sSE8Yes3000[n 41]
GranvilleSE15Yes800
YarnfieldSE15Yes2200
VivianSE15Yes1000
GalateaSE15Yes2500[n 16]
HuguenotSE15Yes1400
BonningtonSW8Yes900
HamiltonSE1Yes550
Fountain GreenSE16Yes970[n 11]
RustSE5No0
Shard'sSE15No0[n 42]
ChoumertSE15No0
Flat IronSE1No0[20]
Gagarin, Southwark StreetSE1No0[n 39]
Queen AnnesSE1No0
Westminster BusinessSE11No0[n 43]

East

NamePost districtOpen to air communal spaceImage
ClaptonE5Yes12000
CanadaE14Yes12000
IonE2Yes9000
CarltonE1Yes9000
Tredegar (/trɪˈdɡər/, Welsh: [trɛˈdeːɡar])E3Yes8900
BeaumontE1Yes8500
CabotE14Yes8200
Royal VictoriaE16Yes5500
St David’sE14Yes[21]5500
HarpleyE1Yes5000
Bishops, Old Spitalfields MarketE1Yes5500
Thomas MoreE1Mainly4500
FordE1Yes4000
SidneyE1Yes3950
AvisE1Yes3000
PetticoatE1Mainly3800
RectoryE1Yes2800
The Mother'sE5Yes2500[n 11][n 19]
WellcloseE1Not mainly800
HooperE1Yes1600
HornbeamE3Yes1070
JasmineE3Yes1070
GraylingE2Yes900
TimesE1Yes900[n 44]
LeaE3Yes800
Bartholomew, Cudworth StreetE1Yes700
ArbourStepney, E1Yes6300
BrayfordE1Yes1100[n 45]
O’LearyE1Yes1700
DouthwaiteE1Yes840[n 11]
CorkE1Yes500[n 11]
The Watergarden, RoyE14Yes1100[n 46]
YorkE14Yes2800
CutlersE14Yes895[n 11]
VulcanE14Yes900[n 11]
TorresE14Yes300[n 11]
BeringE14Yes300[n 11]
ShalbourneE9Yes1200[n 11]
Silk MillsE9Yes1200[n 11]
LeabankE9Yes2500
AlphabetE3Yes2000[n 11]
Gerry Raffles and TheatreE15Yes2500
HeylynE3Yes2300
SheffieldE3Yes1700
GuerinE3Yes1600
TrellisE3Yes1500
StonechatE6Yes1200[n 11]
PartridgeE6Yes1200[n 11]
LampernE2Yes1300
Old MarketE2Yes1000
AmbassadorE14Yes1100[n 47]
St George's or Saint George's SquareE14Yes700
Aqua VistaE3Yes900
LanarkE14Yes1800
Burrells WharfE14Yes2500
CapstanE14Yes2000
BotanicE14Yes[n 48]6000
HopewellE14Yes2400
CarterE14Yes1000
St Thomas’sE9Yes6000
St Peter’sE2Yes2000
PollardE2Yes6400
Market, Chrisp StreetE14Yes3000
FassettE9Yes2200
ShawE17Yes1275
Sutton (or Urswick Road)E9Yes2400[n 11]
The Square, High Road/York RoadE10Yes2000
PatriotE2No0
SpitalE1No0[n 49]
Cumberland MillsE14No0[n 43]
MurrayE16No0
St George'sE7No0
RegentE3No0
Old SchoolE14No0
AtholE14No0
TorrensE15No0
OlympusE5No0
TransomE14No0
ForgeE14No0
WarriorE12No0
St Luke’sE16No0
Goldsmith’sE2No0
EducationE1No0
PortlandE1No1180[n 43]
MartineauE1No0[n 50]
ChantE15No0
BarnbyE15No0
PrimroseE9No0
Principal, Chelmer RoadE9No0
AlbertE15No0
MarylandE15No0
TollgateE6No0[n 50]
GooseE6No0[n 50]
ButterfieldE6No0[n 50]

Renamed squares note:

  • Albert Gardens
  • Trafalgar Gardens

These two 19th century built Squares are officially renamed as shown. This avoids confusion with other squares in London.

East

NamePost townPost districtOpen to air communal spaceImage
EastburyBarkingIG11Mainly9000
BrandesburyWoodford GreenIG8Yes3000
RoseburyWoodford GreenIG8Yes3000
BrackleyWoodford GreenIG6Yes1500[n 51]
WarringtonDagenhamRM8Yes2700
The SquareIlfordIG1Yes1850
NoelDagenhamRM8Yes1400[n 52]
CaustonDagenhamRM9Yes2300
ArnettLondonE4Yes2700
ManorDagenhamRM8No0
OsborneDagenhamRM9No0
HuntersDagenhamRM9No0
The SquareWoodford GreenIG8No0

West

(the London Boroughs of Hillingdon, Hounslow and Ealing, exc. Harefield, Isleworth and Feltham)

NamePost townPost districtOpen to air communal spaceImage
The SquareHayes, UxbridgeUB11Yes11000
SuttonHeston, HounslowTW5Yes7100
TownfieldHayesUB3Yes6500
EmeraldSouthallUB2Yes4700
HallidaySouthallUB2Yes1800[n 11]
CubittSouthallUB2Yes1400[n 11]
ColeridgeLondonW13Yes1200[n 11]
VictoriaLondonW5Yes820
St Mary’s or Old EalingLondonW5Yes800
ChiswickLondonW4No0
Essex Place (Market)[n 53]LondonW4Yes860
DolphinLondonW4No0[n 50]
EpsomHounslowTW6No0
CardingtonHounslowTW4No0
DrenonHayesUB3No0
TudorHayesUB3No0
MissionBrentfordTW8No0
FerryBrentfordTW8No0

South West

Royal/London Boroughs of Kingston-upon-Thames, Richmond upon Thames and Wandsworth, excluding Battersea, Norwood, Clapham and Balham.

NamePost townPost districtOpen to air communal spaceImage
NewBedfont, FelthamTW14Yes
20000[n 11]
St. Andrew’sSurbitonKT6Yes8900
TolandLondonSW15Yes6000[n 46][n 16]
AubynLondonSW15Yes3200[n 46]
ChapmanLondonSW19Yes3000
BarringerLondonSW17Yes1900
HeathfieldLondonSW18Mainly not13000
Red LionLondonSW18No0
HardwicksLondonSW18No0
St Edmunds (or Saint Edmunds)LondonSW13Yes1800
EmeraldLondonSW15Yes1900
RadcliffeLondonSW15Yes1600
GillisLondonSW15Yes1300
VanneckLondonSW15Yes1250
BevinLondonSW17Yes1200
ChartfieldLondonSW15Yes900
New ChapelFelthamTW13Yes1400[n 35]
TopiaryRichmondTW9Yes1400
HeronRichmondTW9Yes860[n 46]
Charlotte (Pyland Road)RichmondTW10Yes1300[n 46]
MemorialKingston upon ThamesKT1Yes1600
SigristKingston upon ThamesKT1Yes600
NoelTeddingtonTW11Yes500[n 46]
LowerIsleworthTW7Yes730
UpperIsleworthTW7Yes210[n 39]
CheritonLondonSW17No0
MemorialIsleworthTW7No0
BelvedereLondonSW19No0
GeorgeLondonSW19No0
MagnaLondonSW14No0[n 43]
PavilionLondonSW17No0[n 43]
The SquareRichmondTW9No0
King GeorgeRichmondTW10No0
FleetwoodKingston upon ThamesKT1No0[n 43]
CharterKingston upon ThamesKT1No0
ErnestKingston upon ThamesKT1No0
RoseberyKingston upon ThamesKT1No0
WatersKingston upon ThamesKT1No0
AshcombeNew MaldenKT3No0[n 43]
IdmistonNew MaldenKT3No0
St George’sNew MaldenKT3No0
St LeonardsSurbitonKT6No0

South East

Royal/London Boroughs of Greenwich, Lewisham, Bexley and Bromley (plus Norwood and Dulwich)

NamePost townPost districtOpen to air communal spaceImage
RyculffLondonSE3Mainly5000
ArtilleryLondonSE18Yes3800
WatermensLondonSE20Yes3800
James ClavellLondonSE18Yes3000
PavilionLondonSE18Yes1300[n 46]
SchoolLondonSE10Yes1500[n 46]
PalaceLondonSE19Yes2000
TalismanLondonSE26Yes2000
ChiswellLondonSE3Yes2100
GibbsLondonSE19Yes2000
MarketBromleyBR1Yes1700
RobertLondonSE13Yes2000
Les Smith or Leslie SmithLondonSE18Yes880[n 43]
KingstonLondonSE19Not mainly900
TristanLondonSE3Yes800[n 16]
Old ClemLondonSE18Mainly850
St Paul’sBromleyBR2Not mainly580
RomanLondonSE28Yes480
CorvetteLondonSE10Yes380[n 46]
CollinsLondonSE3Not mainly350
OregonOrpingtonBR6No0
PeppermeadLondonSE13No0[n 24]
ArcherLondonSE14No0
BeresfordLondonSE18No0
ReginaldLondonSE8No0
EaldhamLondonSE9No0
AdamsBexleyheathDA6No0
BrookLondonSE18No0
MortgramitLondonSE18No0
GainsboroughBexleyheathDA6No0
RegentBelvedereDA17No0

North

NamePost townPost districtOpen to air communal spaceImage
ArundelLondonN7Yes12000
CornwallisLondonN19Mainly9500
TophamLondonN17Yes1600
BroadfieldEnfieldEN1Yes1500
WestbrookCockfosters, BarnetEN4Yes1500
SambrokeBarnetEN4Yes800[n 11]
AlbionLondonE8Yes5800
EvergreenLondonE8Yes4600
ChowLondonE8Yes600
TimeLondonE8Yes300
SchonfeldLondonN16Not mainly2000[n 11][n 16]
ChristinaLondonN4No0[n 11]
BrunswickLondonN17No0[n 43]
ChaplinLondonN12No0
Hamilton (Sandringham Gardens)LondonN12No0
Red (Piano Lane)LondonN16No0

South

NamePost townPost districtOpen to air communal spaceImage
ExchangeCroydonCR0Mainly4000
StanleyCarshaltonSM5Yes3950
AlexandraMordenSM4Yes2500
GlebeMitchamCR4Yes1350[n 46]
KennetMitchamCR4Yes1100[n 11]
CameronMitchamCR4Yes900[n 11]
TyrrellMitchamCR4Yes650[n 11]
AppletonMitchamCR4Yes350[n 11]
TorringtonCroydonCR0Yes700
Rathbone (Tanfield Road)CroydonCR0Yes200[n 35]
TimesSuttonSM1No0
WallingtonWallingtonSM6No0
Queen'sCroydonCR0No0

North west

NamePost townPost districtOpen to air communal spaceImage
ChelmsfordLondonNW4Yes6300
SouthLondonNW11Mainly7600
CentralLondonNW11Yes10000
NorthLondonNW11Mainly7600
LitchfieldLondonNW11Yes1500
LucasLondonNW11Yes1500
LindenHarefield, UxbridgeUB11Yes1500[n 11]
SeatonLondonNW7Yes1080
SentinelLondonNW4Yes450
HampdenLondonN14Yes5000
Wembley CentralWembleyHA9Yes6400
BelsizeLondonNW3Not mainly10000
St Leonard’sLondonNW5No0
ElliottLondonNW3No0
New EndLondonNW3No0
The MountLondonNW3No0
AshbourneNorthwoodHA6No0

Demolished

  1. became Bevin Court, north of Percy Circus, Pentonville
  2. became forecourt zone between overground and underground Marylebone stations
  3. A very small square.

See also

Notes and References

Notes
  1. A pentagon. One actual square is directly north and commonly confused by map makers, the Green. Nine smaller courtyards exist, e.g., Preacher's Court, Pensioners Court, Masters Court: mostly green.
  2. Within subdivision of a building (into three), a courtyard, linked by public ways to all but north side. Takes up site of Furnival's Inn.
  3. historic hardscapes north and south of Clerkenwell Road
  4. a C-shaped building with a raised terrace occupying the void
  5. Bartholomew Court of the Redbrick Estate could be said to comprise it yet its north side remains: three buildings, today numbered №s 20-28.
  6. including avenue/plaza East approach in the m² shown.
  7. Taken as Mark Street Gardens, fronting south-west of this short street
  8. North-west mini-extension omitted
  9. A tree on a verge then a side yard with a surface car park in the City of London
  10. Forms the east of Coram’s Fields
  11. Car park with a much smaller zone of trees, lawn or shrubs
  12. Smaller than the large communal courtyard(s) in the same estate
  13. Forms the west of Coram’s Fields
  14. Excludes SE greens with table zone used by UCL
  15. Part of Lincoln's Inn. One side is open (to Lincoln's Inn Fields)
  16. Set around two greens
  17. The outer sides form four lines, one very short; the inner sides i.e. the communal gardens are a rounded triangle
  18. Green, landscaped zones south of four parallel housing blocks; replaced original square and four small streets
  19. An oval.
  20. An irregular octagon, with housing facing on seven sides, opened by road eighth side and mini-roundabout; extra courtyards and gated.
  21. As from Victorian layout, an elongated semi-hexagon, with large green
  22. A triangle with arterial road
  23. And extra zones of green and playgrounds
  24. Recesses in a building’s front (car parks in indents) are marked no for ease of reference.
  25. Block of flats with smaller garden to rear
  26. More than 1000 flats occupy the Houses of Dolphin Square, the building sitting in the square is its Sports Centre with café/restaurant. Beatty House, Collingwood House, Drake House, Duncan House, Frobisher House, Grenville House and Hawkins House, Hood House, Howard House, Keyes House, Nelson House, Raleigh House, Rodney House
  27. Half of Smith Square is a church if excluding the circular road with five exits surrounding
  28. Retail estate, north of, and café-centrepiece town square
  29. A long lune shape
  30. Alexander Square is on one side trees to the back of houses on Egerton Crescent (the only square is conceived taking in Brompton Road), has three minor roads around the other sides of its thin strip of green divided in two by another minor road
  31. Most of the gardens are to the side at Rose Square, a former hospital, Fulham Road, Chelsea, London
  32. Chantry Square is set around a small circle with a semi-circular hedge
  33. Shopping centre
  34. Chesterton Square is a large courtyard of a large civic/social housing building
  35. A courtyard
  36. South part has a courtyard used for parking and small shrubbery
  37. Half of Trinity Church Square is Henry Wood Hall, an Arts Organisation that replaced the church.
  38. Half of St Philip Square is the Church of St Philip with St Bartholomew.
  39. Triangular
  40. Cornwall Square is divided by fences among the owners.
  41. Bounded by the Thames, a boat repair marina and the roads named Deptford Wharf and Plough Way, St George’s Square in SE8 has no homes or businesses.
  42. A narrow asphalted accessway
  43. A cross- or t-shaped road, without such space or with apartments that have courtyard(s); mainly a parking lot or accessway.
  44. Mainly water
  45. T shaped, pedestrian hardscape
  46. A directly enclosed-by-homes, green courtyard
  47. A tree set in complex-footprint hardstanding
  48. Octagon: three sides unfilled
  49. A short street, leading past Bishops Square, becoming Lamb Street
  50. Part of a road with a slight kink
  51. Mostly fenced separate homes and gardens; has a railed verge, with shrubbery, of size stated
  52. Three triangles (a tree- and shrub-planted verge crossed by two roads and bounded by another)
  53. Sometimes considered part of Chiswick High Road
References
  1. London Buildings Acts (Amendment) Act 1939, Part 2: Naming and Numbering of Streets and Buildings.
  2. Street Naming application pack Example policy list from Kensington and Chelsea, replacing similar earlier rule. Retrieved 2018-03-12
  3. "Your garden square and you" Archived 2006-07-11 at the Wayback Machine, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, UK. URL accessed 20 June 2006.
  4. Camilla Phelps, "London opens its gates". The English Garden, June 2013, 97.
  5. "Square" Details of 21st century square, at Farm Lane, Fulham, London Square Group, 2018
  6. "Square"" Details of 21st century square at Waldegrave Road, Teddington, London Square Group, 2018
  7. "Brunswick Square, Orpington" Berkeley Homes Group, 2018
  8. "Royal Warwick Square, Kensington", Berkeley Homes Group, 2018
  9. "St George's Square, Sudbury Hill, Harrow" Taylor Wimpey, 2018
  10. "Tolworth Square, Surbiton" Taylor Wimpey, 2018
  11. Phelps, "London opens its gates". The English Garden, June 2013, 95–98.
  12. "World Archaeology Festival 2013", UCL.
  13. "Cédric Le Borgne: Was That a Dream?". visitlondon.com.
  14. Smith, Rupert (2005). EastEnders: 20 Years in Albert Square. BBC Books. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-563-52165-5.
  15. "Bench in Soho Square". Kirsty MacColl. 2001-08-12. Retrieved 2011-02-03.
  16. http://www.lindisfarne.co.uk/discography/elvis-lives-on-the-moon.htm
  17. Historic England. "lamp post in Pensioners Court (1206699)". National Heritage List for England.
  18. Historic England. "Archway to Rotherhithe Tunnel Approach (1385848)". National Heritage List for England.
  19. Historic England. "Rotherhithe (Norwegian Seamen) War Memorial (1449959)". National Heritage List for England.
  20. Flat Iron Square at Google Maps; a street food market that was once a large parking lot, between Southwark St and Union St.
  21. Has three squares opening out onto the Thames
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