London’s Pocket Parks: Arlington Square, N1

This is a well-tended pocket park in the heart of an 1850s development of well-to-do terraced houses and former artists’ cottages.Unusually for a formal square surrounded by houses, the houses also have their own back gardens, which makes the park an unusual survivor, as there would have been fewer objections to building on it had the opportunity arisen.
The area was land owned by The Clothworkers’ Company and developed by Henry Rydon around 1850. At the heart of the development is A