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Portman Square is a garden square in Marylebone, central London, surrounded by townhouses. It was specifically for private housing let on long leases having a ground rent by the Portman Estate, which owns the private communal gardens. It marks the western end of Wigmore Street, which connects it to Cavendish Square to the east.
Manchester Square, part of the Portman Estate. The Portman Estate, covering 110 acres of Marylebone in London’s West End, was founded in 1532 when the land was first leased to Sir William Portman. [1] The Portman Estate also has two rural estates in Buckinghamshire and Herefordshire. [2]
The hotel is located on Portman Square, part of the 270 acres (1.1 km 2) estate granted in 1552 to Sir Henry William Portman, Lord Chief Justice to Henry VIII. [1] The hotel was designed by Stone, Toms & Partners, [citation needed] and opened on May 1, 1970, as The Churchill, operated by Loews Hotels. [2]
HOTEL REVIEW: This 1970s-built Marylebone hotel has a gentle buzz and offers nods to former prime minister Sir Winston Churchill throughout, finds Helen Wilson-Beevers
There are 168 registered parks and gardens in Greater London. 18 are listed at grade I, the highest grade, 32 at grade II*, the middle grade, and 118 at grade II, the lowest grade. There are no listed parks and gardens in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames or the London Borough of Waltham Forest.
This is a list of garden squares, broadly defined, in London, England.Unlike the list at Squares in London, which partially overlaps, these places all have a clear communal garden element and may be named other than Square; commonly in order, Gardens, Crescent, Place, Fields and Circus reflecting the diversity of the city's complex street layout.
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.
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