List of garden squares in London

This is a list of garden squares broadly defined.

Criteria
For roads and spaces named Square which are in London, see Squares in London.

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. The 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 due to many similar public greens, verges and crescents outside of Central London and even a tiny minority of the large public green places (whether Common or Park) away from the City which are, with no intervening six-foot walls, faced 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 open approach way(s), 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' and/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, all named ...Square, have lost a shared internal zone with approach way(s), so square status, and a large minority are town squares.

Barnet
  • Central Square
  • Litchfield Square
  • Lucas Square

Brent
  • Cambridge Square

Bromley
  • Watermen's Square

Camden

City of London

Hackney

Hammersmith & Fulham

Islington

Kensington and Chelsea

Kingston upon Thames

Lambeth

Southwark

Tower Hamlets

Wandsworth

Westminster

See also
  • London Squares and Enclosures (Preservation) Act 1906
  • London Squares Preservation Act 1931
  • The Royal Commission on Squares
  • Roosevelt Memorial Act 1946

References
  1. http://www.londongardensonline.org.uk/gardens-online-record.asp?ID=LAM005
  1. Craven Hill Gardens has two gardens, one being the small main square
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