London’s Pocket Parks: Hanover Square, W1

This is one of London’s oldest formal squares, just to the south of Oxford Street, and usually, the sort of park only used by locals who know about it, but soon to get a lot busier.Hanover Square was developed shortly after the accession of the first Georgian monarch, King George I in 1714, which gave the square its name. The farmland, on the edge of London, was developed into upmarket housing, mainly on behalf of Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough between 1713-21.
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