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The Square was a London fine dining restaurant, opened on 13 December 1991 in St James's. Since its opening, it had been co-owned by chef Phil Howard and wine expert Nigel Platts-Martin. It also earned its first Michelin star in 1994 and retained it from then on.
St. James's Square, c. 1722 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.
The City of London is known colloquially as the Square Mile, as it is 1.12 sq mi (716.80 acres; 2.90 km 2) [5] in area. Both the terms the City and the Square Mile are often used as metonyms for the UK's trading and financial services industries, which continue a notable history of being largely based in the City. [6]
Trafalgar Square (/ t r ə ˈ f æ l ɡ ər / ⓘ trə-FAL-gər) is a public square in the City of Westminster, Central London, established in the early 19th century around the area formerly known as Charing Cross.
St James's Square is the only square in the St James's district of the City of Westminster and is a garden square. It has predominantly Georgian and Neo-Georgian architecture. For its first two hundred or so years it was one of the three or four most fashionable residential streets in London.
Red Lion Square is a small square in Holborn, London. [1] The square was laid out in 1684 by Nicholas Barbon , [ 2 ] taking its name from the Red Lion Inn. [ 1 ] According to some sources, the bodies of three regicides — Oliver Cromwell , John Bradshaw and Henry Ireton —were placed in a pit on the site of the square.