Site details:
| Bedford Square Garden |
Camden |
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Bedford Square Garden showing pavilion, June 2008. Photo: S Williams
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Bedford Square was built between 1775-86 on the Bedford Estate to provide fashionable town houses. The estate remained sealed by gates until 1893. The square is no longer residential and the central garden, laid out between 1775-80, is now mainly surrounded by offices. Described as 'the best and most complete Georgian square left in Bloomsbury', its large oval garden remains for the private use of keyholders. It is surrounded by late C18th cast-iron railings and has shrubberies, lawn and mature plane trees, and a C19th hexagonal pavilion, which has been restored, and new benches and metal edging have been installed on the resurfaced perimeter path. |
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| Site location: |
Bedford Square |
| Postcode: |
WC1B 3HH |
| Type of site: |
Garden Square |
| Date(s): |
1775-86; 1870s |
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| Listed structures: |
LBI: Nos. 1-54 Bedford Square. LBII: C18th railings and gates to garden |
| Borough: |
Camden |
| Site ownership: |
The Bedford Estate |
| Site management: |
The Bedford Estate |
| Open to public? |
Occasionally |
| Opening times: |
Has opened for OGSW, otherwise private, keyholders only |
| Special conditions: |
Dogs on leads |
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| Public transport: |
Tube: Tottenham Court Road (Central, Northern); Goodge Street (Northern). Bus: 10, 24, 29, 73, 134. |
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The information shown above was correct at the time of the last update 01/06/2008
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