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The private communal garden was provided for residents of surrounding houses of Pelham Crescent, which was built in the 1840s as part of the Henry Smith's Charity estate to designs of George Basevi. The Trustees of the Estate began building on the estate from 1823, appointing Basevi as architect in 1828 who submitted plans for the rest of the estate by the end of 1829. Pelham Crescent, Pelham Place, Pelham Cottage and Park Cottage, now Park House, were completed by 1844 and have more ornamentation than those houses built for the estate in succeeding years. The gardens have lawns, trees and shrubs. Nearby in Fulham Road is a drinking fountain.

The private communal garden was provided for residents of Pembridge Square, which was built in 1856-64 on land that was once part of the Hall Estate, one of three estates in this area, the others being the Campden Charities Estate and the Ladbroke Estate. Today the garden is surrounded by railings and a privet hedge, with grass, gravel paths, lime trees and shrubs within the garden.

This triangular area of communal garden was provided for residents of Pembroke Gardens, which was developed from 1863 in the second phase of building on Lord Kensington's Edwardes Estate. The name Pembroke derives from the Welsh estates of the family and many of the street names in this area are named for villages on their lands in Wales.

Pembroke Square was built in the first period of development of Lord Kensington's Edwardes Estate in the early C19th. It followed the building of Edwardes Square and Earls Terrace and was completed by 1831 after a slow start. Ownership of the central garden enclosure was in several hands from at least the late C19th, with the western portion accessible to residents of surrounding houses, where a sunken rock garden was laid out. The remainder of the enclosure houses one of London's oldest nurseries to be still trading today, Rassells of Kensington. It was established here in 1897 by Charles Rassell who initially purchased the lease of The Lodge, a building at the eastern end of Pembroke Square, for his florist shop. He subsequently acquired the freehold of The Lodge and then part of the garden enclosure, which was initially laid out with tennis courts.

The private communal rear garden was provided for residents of Philbeach Gardens, which was developed as part of the Edwardes Estate in the early C19th. Francis Edwardes, who married into the Rich family who owned the Earl's Court Estate, was from Pembrokeshire and many of the street names reflect this connection. Philbeach was a village in Marloes parish, Pembrokeshire. His son William inherited the estate and was created Baron Kensington in 1776. The relatively late development of the land was partly due to the financial difficulties of the 2nd and 3rd Barons. In 1875 Lord Kensington's surveyor made application to the Metropolitan Board of Works to form the roadway of Philbeach Gardens and building began in 1876. The crescent-shaped garden once had tennis courts.

This strip of garden was originally provided for the use of lessees of the adjoining Victorian houses. At one time within the Manor of Chelsea, land in the area was purchased by Sir Hans Sloane in 1712. On his death his estate was divided between his two daughters, the eastern part going to Elizabeth, becoming the Cadogan Estate on her marriage to Charles Cadogan. Cadogan began developing the 90-acre estate from the 1770s, which was to be called Hans Town. Once a railed enclosure, Pond Street Shrubbery remains a low raised oval pavement. It was planted with a number of plane trees and at one time had York stone crazy paving. In 2021 it was relandscaped and planted with over 630 native trees, shrubs and other plants as part of a rewilding initiative and given the name Heritage Forest.

This public garden was formerly a private communal garden for the houses around Powis Square, which was developed as part of the Colville Estate in 1860. The area has been rehabilitated since the 1960s and a four-storey range of brick terraces has replaced part of one of the terraces. The garden has modern railings, an asphalted play area, a grass mound in the middle and a playground at the south end, with a modern sculpture on the mound.

Queen's Elm Square was built in 1904-6 for the Sloane Stanley Estate on a site behind the Queen's Elm public house. The houses overlook communal gardens with an access road at the front, behind which the two-and-a-half storey neo-Tudor half-timbered buildings have remained virtually unchanged since they were built.

The development of this area of Kensington took place largely after the Great Exhibition of 1851 when Parliament decided to establish a 'cultural centre' and grand residential estate. The land was owned by the 1851 Commissioners and a number of private estates, including the Harrington estate, where building began in 1855 on the site of former market gardens. The gardens were laid out c.1860 for the use of those living in surrounding houses, this privilege extended to those in the near neighbourhood. In WWII there were air raid shelters under the gardens. Since early 1990s the residents have been restoring the gardens, and paths have been re-drawn and gravelled to the original layout. In the interim additional planting had taken place, including a grove of 12 silver birch trees for the Queen's Silver Jubilee in 1977.

Now public, this was originally the private communal garden provided for residents of the houses that surround it, built as part of the Gunter Estate. The western area of the estate, including Redcliffe Square, commenced in the mid 1860s; the name reflects the Bristol connections of estate surveyor George Godwin. The garden is bisected by Redcliffe Gardens, now a busy road, once one of the old routes through the area. To the east is the recreation ground with island beds set in lawn, seating and perimeter trees. In the west the site is largely taken up by St Luke's Church, built 1872-3; the church forecourt is used for parking and the site boundary has London plane trees.

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Roper's Gardens were created as a public amenity on a bomb site following destruction of the buildings in 1941. The name recalls the fact that the land was part of the gift of Sir Thomas More to his daughter Margaret on her marriage to William Roper. The gardens were designed by landscape architect Peter Shepheard and opened in 1964 with a long raised terrace of sheltered seating overlooking areas of lawn, with shrubbery, flower beds and trees. Among the sculptural works is an unfinished relief by Jacob Epstein, who had a studio near here from 1909-14, and the centrepiece of the garden is The Awakening by Gilbert Ledward.

Rose Square is a new residential development on the site of the old Royal Brompton Hospital, and is named after Sir Philip Rose, founder of Brompton Hospital. After the North Block closed the site was redeveloped by Northacre plc, with restoration of a number of historic structures including St Luke's Chapel. Now called The Bromptons, the development is well-landscaped with gardens and courtyards. Some of the former planting remains, such as a number of fine London plane trees.