Hyde Park Square Explained

Hyde Park Square is a residential, tree-planted, garden square one block north of Hyde Park fronted by classical buildings, many of which are listed and marks a crossover of Lancaster Gate and Connaught Village neighbourhoods of Bayswater, London. It measures (internally) 200 by 500 feet, of which the bulk is the private communal garden  - the rest is street-lit, pavemented streets with low railings in front of the houses. Connaught Street runs eastwards from the square towards the Edgware Road.

History and layout

The square was part of "Tyburnia"[1] planned in 1827 by Samuel Pepys Cockerell for the then semi-rural prime holding of the diocese controlled by the Bishop of London but was laid out to a modified plan by his successor George Gutch.

Aside from an approach street or road at its four corners it marks the end of:

Numbering runs in one set for each side, anticlockwise, from south-east:

The square measures, internally, by, of which the bulk is the private communal garden  - the rest is street-lit, pavemented streets with low railings in front of the houses.

Buildings

№s 11–20A and 21 on the north side are grade II listed buildings, thus statutorily protected. №s 30–37 (the west of the south side) is too, likewise, built around 1830–40, probably by George Ledwell Taylor.

Residents

External links

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Tyburnia – A History of the Paddington Estates (HYDE PARK SQUARE GARDEN, London, W2) . www.hydeparksquaregarden.com . 20 October 2014 . 10 June 2017 . 31 July 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170731111045/https://hydeparksquaregarden.com/category/history/ . dead .
  2. "Births, Marriages, and Deaths", The Freeman's Journal and National Pres (Dublin, Ireland), 25 October 1899.