London’s Pocket Parks: Paddington Green, W2

This is a pocket park next to a busy road that today scarce seems like it but has been around for at least 500 years, and now conceals a Cold War bunker.The first written record of Paddington Green as a named space dates to 1549, by which time it was sufficiently well established to be given a specific name and location, so it likely dates to earlier than that written report. It was at the time much larger than today and has slowly shrunk over the centuries as the farmland around was developed a