Queen's Gardens, Westminster

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Queen's Gardens on an 1896 Ordnance Survey map showing the layout of the gardens

Queen's Gardens, Westminster is a garden square in the Bayswater district of the City of Westminster in London.

The square was built in the 1850s along with the rest of the area, another notable garden square being Cleveland Gardens, with all being built by William Frederick Cleveland of Maida Vale who developed many plots in Paddington and Bayswater. [2]

Queen's Gardens was built around 1855. [3]

Notable residents

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References

  1. "Ordnance Survey" . Digimap. 1896. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
  2. Bebbington, Gillian (1972). London Street Names. London, UK: B.T. Batsford. p. 91. ISBN   0713401400.
  3. "Queen's Gardens". London Gardens Online.
  4. "Images" . Ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
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