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{{short description|none}}(File:Sutton Nicholls’s view of St. James’s Square, c. 1722.jpg|thumb|250px|St. James’s Square, c. 1722)(File:Fitzroy Square from the BT Tower.jpg|thumb|Fitzroy Square)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.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.London Buildings Acts (Amendment) Act 1939, Part 2: Naming and Numbering of Streets and Buildings. 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.Street Naming application pack Example policy list from Kensington and Chelsea, replacing similar earlier rule. Retrieved 2018-03-12 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 such as Granary Square are paved; others like Russell Square have grass and trees; many others have 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.“Your garden square and you” {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060711162431www.rbkc.gov.uk/gardensquares/general/default.asp |date=2006-07-11 }}, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, UK. URL accessed 20 June 2006. 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.{{clarify|there is no matching statute listed in the Acts of Parl. of United Kingdom - which Part of which Act does this refer to?|date=March 2018}}Camilla Phelps, “London opens its gates”. The English Garden, June 2013, 97. 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.“Square” Details of 21st century square, at Farm Lane, Fulham, London Square Group, 2018“Square“” Details of 21st century square at Waldegrave Road, Teddington, London Square Group, 2018“Brunswick Square, Orpington” Berkeley Homes Group, 2018“Royal Warwick Square, Kensington”, Berkeley Homes Group, 2018“St George’s Square, Sudbury Hill, Harrow” Taylor Wimpey, 2018“Tolworth Square, Surbiton” Taylor Wimpey, 2018 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

{{See also|List of garden squares in London}}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.Phelps, “London opens its gates”. The English Garden, June 2013, 95–98. 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.“World Archaeology Festival 2013”, UCL.The parks can be categorised as public garden squares, private garden squares or other squares.

Social importance

File:Was that a dream by Cedric Le Borgne.jpg|thumb|An illuminated wire sculpture of a nightingale, displayed in London’s Berkeley Square as part of (:w:Lumiere festival|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.WEB, Cédric Le Borgne: Was That a Dream?,www.visitlondon.com/lumiere/installation/46121800-was-that-a-dream#IY6Wbe9wPZIJvO6C.97, visitlondon.com, en, )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.BOOK, Smith, Rupert, EastEnders: 20 Years in Albert Square, BBC Books, 2005, 978-0-563-52165-5, 15, 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”.WEB,kirstymaccoll.com/information/memorial/bench/index.htm, Bench in Soho Square, Kirsty MacColl, 2001-08-12, 2011-02-03, The Lindisfarne album Elvis Lives On the Moon also includes a song named after that square.WEB,www.lindisfarne.co.uk/discography/elvis-lives-on-the-moon.htm, dead,www.lindisfarne.co.uk/discography/elvis-lives-on-the-moon.htm," title="web.archive.org/web/20140325041921www.lindisfarne.co.uk/discography/elvis-lives-on-the-moon.htm,">web.archive.org/web/20140325041921www.lindisfarne.co.uk/discography/elvis-lives-on-the-moon.htm, 2014-03-25, Elvis Lives On the Moon (1993) {{!, discography {{!}} Lindisfarne - the official website}}

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.(File:LONDON post town map.svg|thumb|London post town postcodes)

Centremost postcodes{|class“wikitable sortable”

!Name!!Post district!!Open-to-sky area between buildings!!Image!!m2
80px)16000
Charterhouse Square>CharterhouseEC1Yes(File:Charterhouse Square.jpggroup=nnum=1206699|desc=lamp post in Pensioners Court}}9300
80px)6600
80px)900
80px){{refnWithin subdivision of a building (into three), a courtyard, linked by public ways to all but north side. Takes up site of Furnival’s Inn.}}1500
80px)320
80px)4500{{refnname=clerknwl|historic hardscapes north and south of Clerkenwell Road}}
Myddelton Square>MyddeltonEC1Yes(File:St Mark’s Church, Myddleton Square - geograph.org.uk - 110035.jpg|80px)14000
80px){{refna C-shaped building with a raised terrace occupying the void}}600
80px){{refnBartholomew Court of the Redbrick Estate could be said to comprise it yet its north side remains: three buildings, today numbered â„–s 20-28.}}0
80px)17000
80px)3200{{refnincluding avenue/plaza East approach in the m2 shown.}}
missing image!
- Shoreditch,_Reliance_Square_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1692298.jpg>80px]]
0
80px){{refnTaken as Mark Street Gardens, fronting south-west of this short street}}2400
80px)2600
80px)1650
80px)5900
80px)2280
|A small pre-school playground500
80px)0
80px)8200
London Lloyds of London von St Mary Axe 201008.jpg>group=n|North-west mini-extension omitted}}
80px)1000
Paternoster Square>PaternosterEC4YesPaternoster Square, London EC2, at Christmas - geograph.org.uk - 1092286.jpg>|3200
Salisbury Square>SalisburyEC4Yes(File:Salisbury Square, London, January 2018 03.jpg|1280
80px)1350
80px)1150{{refnA tree on a verge then a side yard with a surface car park in the City of London}}
80px)480
Creed Lane (geograph 4279051).jpg>80px0
Queen Square, London>QueenWC1YesFile:Bloomsbury, Queen Square, WC1 - geograph.org.uk - 669373.jpg -
8660
Red Lion Square>Red LionWC1Mainly(File:Red Lion Square park.jpg|80px)7200
Gray’s Inn>80px)4430
80px)2600
Bloomsbury Square>BloomsburyWC1Yes(File:Bloomsbury Square gardens 01.jpg|80px)12000
80px)7500
Mecklenburgh Square>MecklenburghWC1Mainly(File:Mecklenburgh Square.jpeggroup=n|Forms the east of Coram’s Fields}}18000
80px)5000
80px)7200
80px)4900
group=ngroup=n|name=smlcc}}1850
group=nSmaller than the large communal courtyard(s) in the same estate}}1400
80px)7800
Brunswick Square>BrunswickWC1Yes(File:BrunswickSquare.jpggroup=n|Forms the west of Coram’s Fields}}18000
Torrington Square>TorringtonWC1Mainly(File:Torrington Square March 2016 01.JPG|80px)8800
Tavistock Square>TavistockWC1Yes(File:2013-02 gandhi tavistock square.JPG|80px)18000
Gordon Square>GordonWC1Yes(File:Gordon Square Gardens, London Borough of Camden, WC1.jpg|80px)16000{{refnExcludes SE greens with table zone used by UCL}}
Woburn Square>WoburnWC1Yes(File:Woburn Square Garden - geograph.org.uk - 1374266.jpg|80px)6200
Russell Square>RussellWC1Yes(File:Summer in the City - geograph.org.uk - 904991.jpg|80px)40000
Bedford Square>BedfordWC1Yes(File:Bedford gardens.jpg|80px)17000
80px){{refnPart of Lincoln’s Inn. One side is open (to Lincoln’s Inn Fields)}}7000

Inner

North and northwest{|class“wikitable sortable”

!Name!!Post district!!Open-to-sky area between buildings!!Image!!m2
Canonbury Square>CanonburyN1Yes(File:Canonbury Square, London Borough of Islington, N1 (2432814041).jpg|8500
80px)5700
80px)9200
Claremont Square>ClaremontN1Yes(File:Claremont square, Islington (1) - geograph.org.uk - 1523970.jpg|12000
|6900
Hoxton Square>HoxtonN1Yes(File:Hoxton square 2.jpg|6000
|5200
80px)2700
80px)9900
Cloudesley Square>CloudesleyN1Mainly(File:Holy Trinity, Cloudesley Square (geograph 3486241).jpg|4800
80px)5200{{refnname=two|Set around two greens}}
80px)12000
80px)2800
Lonsdale Square>LonsdaleN1Yes(File:Lonsdale Square Gardens - geograph.org.uk - 110233.jpg|5250
Gibson Square>GibsonN1Yes(File:Gibson Square, Islington - geograph.org.uk - 1135628.jpg|8200
Milner Square>MilnerN1Yes(File:Milner Square, Islington - geograph.org.uk - 1376178.jpg|4900
Barnsbury Square>BarnsburyN1Yes(File:Barnsbury Square (geograph 1686928).jpg|7750
80px)5900
80px)3600
|3750
|1400
80px)1350
|2500
|3800
|3000
80px)4200{{refnThe outer sides form four lines, one very short; the inner sides i.e. the communal gardens are a rounded triangle}}
Thornhill Square>ThornhillN1Mainly(File:Thornhill Square, Barnsbury - geograph.org.uk - 624532.jpggroup=nAn oval.}}20000
80px)6400
80px)28000
Euston Square>EustonNW1Yes(File:Piscator - geograph.org.uk - 913686.jpg|7000
80px)4400
80px)8500
group=n|Green, landscaped zones south of four parallel housing blocks; replaced original square and four small streets}}
80px)3600
80px)2000{{refnAn irregular octagon, with housing facing on seven sides, opened by road eighth side and mini-roundabout; extra courtyards and gated.}}
80px)13000{{refnAs from Victorian layout, an elongated semi-hexagon, with large green}}
80px)8000{{refnA triangle with arterial road}}
80px)5000{{refnAnd extra zones of green and playgrounds}}
|0
80px)3000
80px)2800
80px)16000
group=nRecesses in a building’s front (car parks in indents) are marked no for ease of reference.}}
80px)0
|0
|0
group=n|Block of flats with smaller garden to rear}}
|0
|0

West and southwest{|class“wikitable sortable”

!Name!!Post district!!Open-to-sky area between buildings!!Image!!m2
Eaton Square>EatonSW1Yes(File:The Parish of St.Peter - panoramio.jpg|51000
Vincent Square>VincentSW1Yes(File:View_from_Westminster_Cathedral_2011_Vincent_Square.jpg|47000
Belgrave Square>BelgraveSW1Yes(File:Entrance to Gardens in Belgrave Square - geograph.org.uk - 1296516.jpg|36000
Grosvenor Square>GrosvenorW1Yes(File:Grosvenor Square - geograph.org.uk - 1090067.jpg|30000
St George’s Square>St George’sSW1Mainly(File:Gardens in St George’s Square, Pimlico - geograph.org.uk - 1300142.jpg|22000
Berkeley Square>BerkeleyW1 Yes(File:Berkeley Square Park - panoramio.jpg|20000
Portman Square>PortmanW1Yes(File:Portman square garden - panoramio.jpg|20000
Eccleston Square>EcclestonSW1Yes(File:Garden Path Eccleston Square - geograph.org.uk - 1297548.jpg|18000
Onslow Square>Onslow SW7Yes(File:Onslow Square SW7 - geograph.org.uk - 190560.jpggroup=n|name=two}}
Warwick Square>WarwickSW1Yes(File:St gabriel Warwick Square.jpg|15000
Cavendish Square>CavendishW1Yes(File:Cavendish Square - geograph.org.uk - 387126.jpg|14500
Parliament Square>ParliamentSW1Yes(File:Westminster, London, UK - panoramio (60).jpg|14000
Bryanston Square>BryanstonW1Yes(File:Bryanston Square - geograph.org.uk - 374401.jpg|14000
Redcliffe Square>RedcliffeSW10Mainly(File:Redcliffe Square Gardens - geograph.org.uk - 957168.jpg|13500
Dolphin Square>DolphinSW1Mainly(File:Dolphin Square (171233643).jpggroup=n|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}}
Thurloe Square>Thurloe SW7Yes(File:Thurloe Square from the V and A - geograph.org.uk - 1143578.jpg|12000
Montagu Square>MontaguW1Yes(File:Playpark in Montagu Square - geograph.org.uk - 1048040.jpg|11000
Lowndes Square>LowndesSW1Yes(File:Anti-Pakistan demonstration outside High Commission of Pakistan, London 01.JPG|11000
Cleveland Square>ClevelandW2Yes(File:Cleveland Square, Bayswater-geograph-2740555.jpg|10000
80px)10000{{refnname=two}}
80px)8400
Smith Square>SmithSW1Mainly(File:Smith Square Westminster London - geograph.org.uk - 1092459.jpggroup=n|Half of Smith Square is a church if excluding the circular road with five exits surrounding}}
Fitzroy Square>FitzroyW1Yes(File:Fitzroy_Square_London.jpg|8700
Nevern Square>NevernSW5Yes(File:Nevern Square - geograph.org.uk - 1211002.jpg|8700
Manchester Square>ManchesterW1Yes(File:Manchester Square nord.jpg|8000
80px)7400
|10000
80px)8200
|4800
Cadogan Square>CadoganSW1Yes(File:Buildings on Cadogan Square (geograph 3805645).jpg|13000
Edwardes Square>EdwardesW8Yes(File:Edwardes Square, London 03.JPG|16000
80px)12000
80px)10000
Sloane Square>Sloane SW1Yes(File:Sloane Square.jpg|6000
80px)5000{{RefnRetail estate, north of, and café-centrepiece town square}}
80px)6500
80px)6400
80px)6000
80px)6200{{refnA long lune shape}}
80px)4500
Montpelier Square>MontpelierSW7Yes(File:Montpelier Square, Knightsbridge - geograph.org.uk - 481205.jpg|4300
80px)4200{{refnAlexander 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}}
80px)2600
Trevor Square>TrevorSW7Yes(File:Trevor Square, Knightsbridge (geograph 4338316).jpg|2800
80px)2000
Victoria Square, London>VictoriaSW1Yes(File:Victoria Square - geograph.org.uk - 1194345.jpg|1250
|1600
80px)1500
80px)1080
80px)1040{{refnname=smlcc}}
80px)1250
|8200
|8000
|7750
Connaught Square>ConnaughtW2Yes 6800
|6400
Mainly(File:Sheldon-square.jpg|6000
80px)4200
80px)4200
|3000
80px)3550
80px)1200{{refnMost of the gardens are to the side at Rose Square, a former hospital, Fulham Road, Chelsea, London}}
group=n|Chantry Square is set around a small circle with a semi-circular hedge, and is part of Kensington Green, a private gated-community}}
|1000
80px)2200
|3300
80px)5780
80px)4400
80px)1980
80px)7200
80px)7200
|950
Campden Hill>80px)8500
|2000
80px)3200
St Peter’s Square, London>St Peter’s SquareW6Yes(File:Greek Runner Hammersmith 364.JPG|13000
80px)4800{{refnShopping centre}}
|3200
80px)2000
|500
80px)2050{{refnChesterton Square is a large courtyard of a large civic/social housing building}}
100px)7500
80px)1150
group=n|name=ct}}
|800
|800
|600
80px)500
group=n|450
group=nA courtyard}}
80px)2700
|2620
|950
|900
group=n|400
group=n|name=ct}}
|0
|0
|0
80px)0
80px){{refnname=cpandts}}0
80px)0
|0
|0

South{|class“wikitable sortable”

!Name!!Postal district!!Open to air communal space!!Image!!m2
80px)18000
80px)12000
80px)10000
Trinity Church Square>Trinity ChurchSE1Mainly(File:Trinity Church Square - north side - geograph.org.uk - 847609.jpggroup=n|Half of Trinity Church Square is Henry Wood Hall, an Arts Organisation that replaced the church.}}
Lorrimore Square>LorrimoreSE17Mainly(File:St Paul, Lorrimore Square, London SE17 - geograph.org.uk - 1750513.jpg|7400
80px)7000
80px)7000
80px)6500
West Square>WestSE11Yes(File:6-19 West Square (geograph 4826425).jpg|6400
80px)6000
80px)6000
80px)5000
Cleaver Square>CleaverSE11Yes(File:Cleaver Square (geograph 3663479).jpg|4800
80px)4500{{refnname=two}}
Addington Square>AddingtonSE5Yes(File:Addington Square SE5 - geograph.org.uk - 165917.jpg|4200
80px)4000{{refnHalf of St Philip Square is the Church of St Philip with St Bartholomew.}}
80px)4000
Merrick Square>Merrick SE1Yes(File:Merrick Square, off Trinity Street (1) - geograph.org.uk - 1765992.jpg|3600
|3200
Walcot Square>WalcotSE11Yes(File:Walcot Square SE11 - geograph.org.uk - 167290.jpggroup=nTriangular}}
St Mary’s Gardens>St Mary’sSE11Yes(File:Walcot Square SE11 - geograph.org.uk - 167290.jpggroup=nTriangular}}
80px)2600
Bermondsey Square>BermondseySE16Yes(File:Alfie%27s_Kitchen_and_Bar_(3469030040).jpg|2500
80px)2100
80px)2000
|1700
group=n|name=cpandts}}
group=n|name=cpandts}}
80px)660
80px)900
80px)640
80px)640
80px)640
80px)640
80px)640
|{{Annotated image| image = London Congestion Charge Zone since 2011.png| image-width = 1000| image-left = -920| image-top = -510| width = 80| height = 80| float = left| annotations =| caption =}}3800
|{{Annotated image| image = London Congestion Charge Zone since 2011.png| image-width = 1000| image-left = -920| image-top = -510| width = 80| height = 80| float = left| annotations =| caption =}}4800
|{{Annotated image| image = London Congestion Charge Zone since 2011.png| image-width = 1000 | image-left = -920 | image-top = -510 | width = 80 | height = 80 | float = left| annotations = | caption =}}5100
|{{Annotated image| image = London Congestion Charge Zone since 2011.png| image-width = 1000| image-left = -920| image-top = -510| width = 80 | height = 80 | float = left| annotations = | caption =}}6000{{refnname=two}}
80px)2000{{NHLEdesc=Archway to Rotherhithe Tunnel Approach}}{{NHLE|num=1449959|desc=Rotherhithe (Norwegian Seamen) War Memorial}}{{refn|group=n|name=two}}
|200
|2300
|1950
|200
|500
group=n|Cornwall Square is divided by fences among the owners.}}
80px)1000{{refnname=cpandts}}
80px)1000{{refnname=cpandts}}
group=n|name=cpandts}}
group=n|name=cpandts}}
|730
80px)1500
80px)3000{{refnBounded 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.}}
|800
|2200
|1000
Pygmalion and Galatea (play)>GalateaSE15Yes 2500{{refnname=two}}
|1400
Bonnington Square>BonningtonSW8Yes(File:Bonnington Square Garden - geograph.org.uk - 1397632.jpg|900
|550
80px)970{{refnname=cpandts}}
|0
group=n|A narrow asphalted accessway}}
|0
Flat Iron Square>Flat IronSE1No 0,+london&hl=en&ll=51.503938,-0.094795&spn=0.002551,0.004823&sll=52.8382,-2.327815&sspn=10.149213,19.753418&t=h&hq=flat+iron+square>,&hnear=London,+United+Kingdom&z=18 Flat Iron Square at Google Maps; a street food market that was once a large parking lot, between Southwark St and Union St.
group=n|name=tri}}
|0
group=n|name=cross}}

East{|class“wikitable sortable”

!Name!!Post district!!Open to air communal space!!Image!!m2
Clapton Square>ClaptonE5Yes(File:Clapton Square - geograph.org.uk - 1373803.jpg|12000
Canada Square>CanadaE14Yes(File:Canada Square in a sunny day - panoramio (1).jpg|12000
80px)9000
80px)9000
tᵻdɡtrɛˈdeːɡar80px)8900
|8500
Cabot Square>CabotE14Yes(File:Cabot Square, London (15679738743).jpg|8200
80px)5500
80px){{refnHas three squares opening out onto the Thames}}5500
|5000
80px)5500
|4500
|4000
80px)3950
|3000
Petticoat Square>PetticoatE1Mainly(File:Petticoat Square, Middlesex Street, City of London - geograph.org.uk - 64260.jpg|3800
80px)2800
group=nCar park with a much smaller zone of trees, lawn or shrubs}}{{refnname=oval}}
80px)800
|1600
|1070
|1070
|900
group=n|Mainly water}}
|800
80px)700
Arbour Square>ArbourStepney, E1Yes(File:The former Raine’s Foundation Grammar School building in Arbour Square - geograph.org.uk - 149017.jpg|6300
group=n|T shaped, pedestrian hardscape}}
|1700
group=n|name=cpandts}}
group=n|name=cpandts}}
group=nA directly enclosed-by-homes, green courtyard}}
80px)2800
group=n|name=cpandts}}
group=n|name=cpandts}}
group=n|name=cpandts}}
group=n|name=cpandts}}
80px)1200{{refnname=cpandts}}
80px)1200{{refnname=cpandts}}
|2500
group=n|name=cpandts}}
80px)2500
|2300
|1700
|1600
|1500
group=n|name=cpandts}}
group=n|name=cpandts}}
|1300
80px)1000
group=n|A tree set in complex-footprint hardstanding}}
|700
|900
80px)1800
80px)2500
|2000
80px){{refnOctagon: three sides unfilled}}6000
|2400
|1000
80px)6000
80px)2000
|6400
80px)3000
Fassett Square>FassettE9Yes(File:View from the roof of the German Hospital, Dalston (3058841015).jpg|2200
|1275
group=n|name=cpandts}}
E10Yes 2000
|0
group=n|A short street, leading past Bishops Square, becoming Lamb Street}}
group=n|name=cross}}
80px)0
|0
|0
|0
|0
|0
|0
|0
|0
|0
80px)0
80px)0
|0
group=nA cross- or t-shaped road, without such space or with apartments that have courtyard(s); mainly a parking lot or accessway.}}
group=n|name=kdroad}}
|0
|0
|0
|0
80px)0
80px)0
group=nPart of a road with a slight kink}}
group=n}}
group=n}}
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.

Outer

East{|class“wikitable sortable”

!Name!!Post town!!Post district!!Open to air communal space!!Image!!m2
80px)9000
80px)3000
80px)3000
group=n|Mostly fenced separate homes and gardens; has a railed verge, with shrubbery, of size stated}}
80px)2700
|1850
group=n|Three triangles (a tree- and shrub-planted verge crossed by two roads and bounded by another)}}
|2300
|2700
|0
|0
|0
|0

West

(the London Boroughs of Hillingdon, Hounslow and Ealing, exc. Harefield, Isleworth and Feltham){|class=“wikitable sortable“!Name!!Post town!!Post district!!Open to air communal space!!Image!!m2
|11000
80px)7100
|6500
|4700
group=n|name=cpandts}}
group=n|name=cpandts}}
group=n|name=cpandts}}
|820
80px)800
80px)0
group=nChiswick High Road}}>|860
group=n|name=kdroad}}
80px)0
|0
|0
|0
80px)0
|0

South West

Royal/London Boroughs of Kingston upon Thames, Richmond upon Thames and Wandsworth, excluding Battersea, Norwood, Clapham and Balham.{|class=“wikitable sortable“!Name!!Post town!!Post district!!Open to air communal space!!Image!!m2
|{{Annotated image| image = Aerial_view_of_London_from_LHR_departure_%2804%29.jpg| image-width = 1000| image-left = -830| image-top = -370| width = 80| height = 80| float = left| annotations =| caption =}}20000{{refnname=cpandts}}
|8900
group=ngroup=n|name=two}}
group=n|name=gnct}}
80px)3000
|1900
80px)13000
|0
|0
|1800
|1900
|1600
|1300
|1250
|1200
|900
80px)1400{{refnname=ct}}
80px)1400
80px)860{{refnname=gnct}}
group=n|name=gnct}}
80px)1600
|600
group=n|name=gnct}}
80px)730
80px)210{{refnname=tri}}
80px)0
80px)0
|0
|0
group=n|name=cross}}
group=n|name=cross}}
80px)0
|0
group=n|name=cross}}
|0
|0
|0
|0
group=n|name=cross}}
|0
|0
|0

South East

Royal/London Boroughs of Greenwich, Lewisham, Bexley and Bromley (plus Norwood and Dulwich){|class=“wikitable sortable“!Name!!Post town!!Post district!!Open to air communal space!!Image!!m2
|5000
|3800
|3800
80px)3000
group=n|name=gnct}}
group=n|name=gnct}}
|2000
|2000
|2100
|2000
|1700
|2000
group=n|name=cross}}
|900
group=n|name=two}}
|850
|580
|480
group=n|name=gnct}}
|350
|0
group=n|name=recess}}
|0
|0
|0
|0
|0
|0
|0
|0
|0

North{|class“wikitable sortable”

!Name!!Post town!!Post district!!Open to air communal space!!Image!!m2
|12000
|9500
|1600
|1500
|1500
group=n|name=cpandts}}
|5800
80px)4600
80px)600
|300
group=ngroup=n|name=two}}
group=n|name=cpandts}}
group=n|name=cross}}
|0
|0
|0

South{|class“wikitable sortable”

!Name!!Post town!!Post district!!Open to air communal space!!Image!!m2
|4000
|3950
|2500
group=n|name=gnct}}
group=n|name=cpandts}}
group=n|name=cpandts}}
group=n|name=cpandts}}
group=n|name=cpandts}}
|700
group=n|name=ct}}
|0
|0
|0

North west{|class“wikitable sortable”

!Name!!Post town!!Post district!!Open to air communal space!!Image!!m2
|6300
South}}LondonNW11Mainly(File:3-18 South Square, Hampstead Garden Suburb 3.JPG|7600
Central}}LondonNW11Yes(File:3-18 South Square, Hampstead Garden Suburb 3.JPG|10000
North}}LondonNW11Mainly(File:The Manse, 14 North Square, Hampstead Garden Suburb.JPG|7600
|1500
80px)1500
group=n|name=cpandts}}
|1080
|450
|5000
80px)6400
|10000
|0
|0
|0
80px)0
|0

Demolished

  • Angel Square, EC1
  • Billiter Square, EC3
  • Holford Square{{efn|became Bevin Court, north of Percy Circus, Pentonville}}
  • Harewood Square{{efn|became forecourt zone between overground and underground Marylebone stations}}
  • Pancras Square{{efn|A very small square.}}
{{notelist}}

See also

Notes and references

Notes
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References
{{Reflist}}

External links

{{commons category|Urban squares in London}} {{London landmarks}}

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