Campden Hill Square was laid out by Joshua Flesher Hanson in 1826. Gates and most of the railings around the central garden are original but building sites were let or sold piecemeal. The first house occupied was no.2 in 1828; the other early houses which remain were completed at various dates up to 1842.
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
W8, Campden Hill Square
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Campden Hill Square
Developer and builder. British History Online says that in 1823 he bought "ov...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Campden Hill Square
The borough was formed in 1965 by the merging of the separate former boroughs...
Back in 2022 Matt Brown of Londonist kindly sent us 2 plaques he garnered while Open House visiting the MY Havengore. The yacht was comm...
None of these four plaques are visible in our photo (and still this was the best position form which to take the photo!) all being hidden...
Monteagle was at dinner when he received the letter so he passed it to a servant to read aloud. This servant was closely connected to one...
This page of Pepys' Diary is given at The Diary of Samuel Pepys with lots of explanatory links.
On a plaque inside the church porch Yvonne Green is commemorated with the other, non-AFS, fire-watchers who died the same night. This bom...
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