London: Square

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Parliament Square

Parliament Square is a storied political and cultural landmark nestled in the heart of London, United Kingdom. This iconic square is bordered by some of the city's most significant buildings, including the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, and the Supreme Court.

Trafalgar Square

Trafalgar Square is an iconic public space at the heart of London, United Kingdom, known for its cultural significance and historical monuments. This bustling square is often the focal point for political demonstrations, community gatherings, and festive celebrations...

Horse Guards Parade

Nestled in the heart of London, Horse Guards Parade is a historic ceremonial parade ground that captures the essence of Britain's military heritage and regal pageantry. This vast open space is a stone's throw away from the iconic Downing Street and stands as a living...

Fourth plinth

The Fourth Plinth, located in the northwest corner of Trafalgar Square in London, England, is a unique and ever-changing tourist attraction that captures the city’s creative spirit. Unlike the other three plinths in the square, which display statues of historical...

Paternoster Square

Paternoster Square is an urban development, owned by the Mitsubishi Estate Co. next to St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London. The area, which takes its name from Paternoster Row, once centre of the London publishing trade, was devastated by aerial bombardment in The Blitz during the Second World War.

Leicester Square

Leicester Square is a pedestrianised square in the West End of London, England. It was laid out in 1670 as Leicester Fields, which was named after the recently built Leicester House, itself named after Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester.

House of St Barnabas

The House of St Barnabas, at 1 Greek Street, Soho, is a Grade I Listed Georgian building in London notable for its rococo plasterwork interiors and for other architectural features.

Park Square Gardens

Park Square is a large garden square or private appendix to Regent's Park in London and is split from a further green, the long northern side of Park Crescent, by Marylebone Road and Regent's Park tube station.

Mitre Square

Mitre Square is a small square in the City of London. It measures about 77 feet by 80 feet and is connected via three passages with Mitre Street to the south west, to Creechurch Place to the north west and, via St James's Passage, to Duke's Place to the north east.

Fitzroy Square

Fitzroy Square is a Georgian square in London. It is the only one in the central London area known as Fitzrovia.

Soho Square

Soho Square is a garden square in Soho, London, hosting since 1954 a de facto public park let by the Soho Square Garden Committee to Westminster City Council. It was originally called King Square after Charles II.

Hoxton Square

Hoxton Square is a public garden square in the Hoxton area of Shoreditch in the London Borough of Hackney. Laid out in 1683, it is thought to be one of the oldest in London.

Gordon Square

Gordon Square is a public park square in Bloomsbury, London, England. It is part of the Bedford Estate and was designed as one of a pair with the nearby Tavistock Square. It is owned by the University of London.

Berkeley Square

Berkeley Square is a garden square in the West End of London. It is one of the best known of the many squares in London, located in Mayfair in the City of Westminster. It was laid out in the mid 18th century by the architect William Kent, and originally extended further south.

Tavistock Square

Tavistock Square is a public square in Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden.

Windrush Square

Windrush Square is an open public space in the centre of Brixton, South London, occupying an area in front of the Brixton Tate Library that was originally known as the Brixton Oval, and then Tate Gardens.

Ladbroke Square

Ladbroke Square is a garden square in Notting Hill, west London, England.

Finsbury Square

Finsbury Square is a 0.7-hectare square in Finsbury in central London which includes a six-rink grass bowling green. It was developed in 1777 on the site of a previous area of green space to the north of the City of London known as Finsbury Fields, in the parish of St Luke's and near Moorfields.

Charterhouse Square

Charterhouse Square is a garden square, a pentagonal space, in Farringdon, in the London Borough of Islington, and close to the former Smithfield Meat Market.

Dorset Square

Dorset Square is a garden square in Marylebone, London. All buildings fronting it are terraced houses and listed, in the mainstream category. It takes up the site of Lord's Old Cricket Ground, which lasted 23 years until the 1811 season. Internally it spans 100,000 square feet.

Cabot Square

Cabot Square is one of the central squares of the Canary Wharf Development on the Isle of Dogs. The square includes a fountain and several works of art, and is the address for the London Offices of Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley.

Brompton Square

Brompton Square is a garden square in London's Brompton district, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

Dean's Yard

Dean's Yard, Westminster, comprises most of the remaining precincts of the historically greater scope of the monastery or abbey of Westminster, not occupied by its buildings. It is known to members of Westminster School as Green.

Kensington Square

Kensington Square is a garden square in Kensington, London, W8. It was built from 1692 on land acquired for the purpose in 1685 and is the oldest such square in Kensington.

Harrington Square

Harrington Square is a garden square in the Camden Town area of London, England. It is located at the northern end of Hampstead Road and next to Mornington Crescent tube station.

Bonnington Square

Bonnington Square is a square in Vauxhall, south London, which was built in the 1870s. It became famous in the 1980s when all the houses in it, vacant and awaiting demolition, were squatted.

Salisbury Square

Salisbury Square is a square in London EC4.

Brunswick Square

Brunswick Square is a 3-acre public garden and ancillary streets along two of its sides in Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden.

Smith Square

Smith Square is a square in Westminster, London, 250 metres south-southwest of the Palace of Westminster. Most of its garden interior is filled by St John's, Smith Square, a Baroque surplus church, which has inside converted to a concert hall.

Bermondsey Square

Bermondsey Square is on Tower Bridge Road in Bermondsey, south London, England. It was the site of the 11th century Bermondsey Abbey. The earliest medieval remains found are a Norman church from around 1080, which was recorded in the Domesday Book.

Dolphin Square

Dolphin Square is a block of private flats with some ground floor business units near the River Thames in Pimlico, Westminster, London built between 1935 and 1937.

Cadogan Square

Cadogan Square is a residential square in Knightsbridge, London, that was named after Earl Cadogan. Whilst it is mainly a residential area, some of the properties are used for diplomatic and educational purposes.

Chester Square

Chester Square is an elongated residential garden square in London's Belgravia district. It was developed by the Grosvenor family, as were the nearby Belgrave and Eaton Square.

Onslow Square

Onslow Square is a garden square in South Kensington, London, England. It is set back between the Old Brompton Road to the northwest and the Fulham Road to the southeast. To the north is South Kensington Underground station. To the south is the Royal Marsden Hospital.

Thurloe Square

Thurloe Square is a traditional garden square in South Kensington, London, England. There are private communal gardens in the centre of the square for use by the local residents.

Bishops Square

Bishops Square is a large commercial property development in the Spitalfields area of London, England. Previously owned by Hammerson, and later jointly by Hammerson and the Oman Investment Fund, it is now owned by JP Morgan.

Shepherd Market

Shepherd Market is a small business-lined precinct featuring two small squares, one with a northern recess in Mayfair, in the West End of London, built up between 1735 and 1746 by Edward Shepherd on the open ground then used for the annual fair from which Mayfair derives; it...

Craven Hill Gardens

Craven Hill Gardens is a classical, Victorian, residential garden estate which has two small garden squares, the green subset of squares in London.

Red Lion Square

Red Lion Square is a small square in Holborn, London. The square was laid out in 1684 by Nicholas Barbon, taking its name from the Red Lion Inn. According to some sources the bodies of three regicides—Oliver Cromwell, John Bradshaw and Henry Ireton—were placed in a pit on the site of the Square.

Leinster Square

Leinster Square and Prince's Square are mirroring garden squares in Bayswater on the cusp of Westbourne and Notting Hill. One street overlaps the two squares. It is within the large, 1965, additions to the City of Westminster, London, W2.

Arbour Square

Arbour Square is a late Georgian square in Stepney, in the borough of Tower Hamlets, east London, England. It is located just off the Commercial Road approximately one mile east of the City of London.

Carlyle Square

Carlyle Square is a garden square off the King's Road in London's Chelsea district, SW3. The square was laid out on market gardens and was originally called Oakley Square. It was later named in honour of the writer Thomas Carlyle in 1872.

Vincent Square

Vincent Square is a grass-covered square in Westminster, London, England, covering 13 acres, lined with mature trees including London Planes.

Porchester Square

Porchester Square is an archetypal-format, narrow London garden square in Bayswater on the cusp of inter-related Westbourne. It is lined with tall white Victorian classical architecture residential buildings.

Wellclose Square

Wellclose Square is a public square in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, between Cable Street to the north and The Highway to the south. The western edge, now called Ensign Street, was previously called Well Street. The southern edge was called Neptune street. On the north side is Graces Alley, home to Wilton's Music Hall.

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