London’s Pocket Parks: Goldington Crescent Gardens, NW1

This is a small curved garden a few minutes walk north of St Pancras station that was once a private space for the houses that formed the Crescent.The main road the park sits next to was laid out in the early 1800s as London started to expand northwards. The housing followed when Goldington Crescent was built as part of a development by the Duke of Bedford, a perfectly oval garden was created in front of the houses with a simple lawn and a path running around the sides.
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