London’s Alleys: Albion Mews, W2

This is a charming, plant-filled mews alley just north of Hyde Park, sitting next to a former and once very large cemetery.The area first started developing in the late 1790s, when St George’s church in Hanover Square bought a large plot of land north of Hyde Park to use as an overflow cemetery.
Not long afterwards, housing started spreading around the area as well, and much of the street pattern was settled in the 1820s as part of a long-term plan by the architect Samuel Pepys Cockerell t