London’s Pocket Parks: Crabtree Fields, W1

On a side street off Tottenham Court Road you can find this very leafy pocket park, a legacy of WWII bombing, but is also far younger, dating only to the 1980s.Crabtree Fields was still fields right up to the 1740s, when developments along Tottenham Court Road started expanding outwards, and within 50 years, the whole area was covered in the street layout we pretty much see today. Crabtree Fields as a pocket park didn’t exist, though, as the area was filled with houses, facing a small pass