Queen's Gardens, Westminster

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

Queen's Gardens

Queen's Gardens on an 1896 Ordnance Survey map showing the layout of the gardens[1]

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

Bishop Charles Ridgeway, 32 Queen's Gardens
William Thornhill Tucker. Writer and grandson of Governor of Bermuda. 16 Queen's Gardens
Henry St George Tucker, financier of East India Company. 16 Queen's Gardens
Sir Henry Seton-Karr, politician and explorer. 11 Queen's Gardens
Major General Thomas Assheton Duke. 7 Queen's Gardens
Sir Forrest Fulton, politician. 27 Queen's Gardens

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References

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

51°30′49.22″N 0°10′55.43″W

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[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.