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Garden Squares

Trafalgar Square. Copyright English Heritage  The garden square is a distinctively British style of urban design, used as a device for linking green spaces with residential areas. It is a particular feature of London, where there are now around six hundred squares, contrasting with Bristol (the second largest town in England at the turn of the C17 to C18), which only has twenty.

Portman Square. Copyright English Heritage  T o find out more about the history and development of garden squares,  download the town squares pdf.