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On both sides of Cundy Street are blocks of flats in well-tended landscape settings. To the north is a development by T P Bennett of 1952 and to the south a series of 1930s blocks with curved balconies with curved brick and stone retaining walls at the entrances. Both estates have lawns with shrubberies at the margins. Nikolaus Pevsner described Cundy Street Flats as 'four generously spaced blocks. . . These funny creatures have the upright profiles and coloured cylindrical columns of the fifties, with the long rounded balconies of the thirties used to create a kind of vertical crenellation, and sashes of early Georgian pattern'.

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Dolphin Square Garden is the private courtyard garden of a large luxury apartment block built in 1935-7. The courtyard, built over an underground car park, contains ornamental gardens, some of which dates from the original layout. Features include lawns, a central pool with bronze sculpture of dolphins, and an avenue of pollarded chestnut trees leading to the former entrance to Grosvenor Road (now closed). A raised Moroccan 'sun garden' was created in the 1980s over the sports club, and other features include a herb garden, Japanese-style grotto, rockeries, rose beds, raised beds faced with Cotswold stone, planted urns, seats and a pergola. The gardens are watered from their own Artesian wells.

Dorset Square was built in 1815-1820 as the central feature of the planned urban layout of the Portman Estate. The square was built on land formerly occupied by Thomas Lord's first cricket ground established in 1787, which vacated the site in 1811. The garden enclosure, little altered since its original lay-out in 1814, was owned by Portman family, its maintenance vested in a private Trust by Act of Parliament in 1813. The Trust levied a rate for its upkeep on residents of Dorset Square, who had the right to use the garden. In 1952 death duties forced the Estate to sell the freeholds of the square and it is now owned and maintained by the Dorset Square Trust.

Drury Lane Gardens is a small public garden created in 1877 on the site of a former burial ground of St Martin-in-the-Fields, the first burial ground to be made into a public garden in Westminster following closure as a result of the Burial Acts, in this case due to the intervention of Octavia Hill. The mortuary and lodge survive either side of the entrance, together with C19th gate piers. The raised garden is largely taken up with a playground, sports court and hard landscaping but also has a seating area shaded by a pergola, with shrubberies and bedding displays. A number of tombstones are ranged along the northern boundary.

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Eaton Square was laid out as part of a largely intact planned development of houses and gardens on the Grosvenor Estate. The private gardens of Eaton Square consist of six enclosures of comparable character. All railed, they have shrubbery around peripheral paths and lawns containing beds. The square has numerous major trees, dominated by London planes many dating from the original planting, together with smaller, ornamental varieties. Former residents of Eaton Square include Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain at No.37 and actress Vivien Leigh at No.54.

Ebury Square was laid out in 1820 on a former nursery garden that had earlier been the site of Ebury or Eabery Farm, part of the estate of Elizabeth I, later owned by the Grosvenor family. The central garden, on the site of the homestead of the Saxon farm, has been open to the public since 1884. The surrounding terraced houses were partially destroyed in 1860, the remaining fabric subsequently badly bombed, so none of the original houses survive. Recently restored, the garden comprises a lawn crossed by paths, perimeter shrubs, bedding displays and mature London plane and golden acacia trees. In the centre is a flowerbed and cast iron fountain.

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Much of the Pimlico area was used for market gardening from the early C17th, known as the Neat House gardens after the nearby sub-manor of Neat. Owned by the Grosvenor family from 1677 it remained in use for market gardening until the 1820s when Thomas Cubitt leased the land for development. Eccleston Square was laid out in 1835, so-called from the village of Eccleston, part of the Duke of Westminster's lands in Cheshire. The railed rectangular garden, which was provided for residents of the square, is enclosed by dense shrubbery and mature trees including London plane, surrounding a peripheral path and lesser paths dividing the central lawn. It has been refurbished by local residents since 1984 and contains specialist collections including the National Collection of Ceanothus, and numerous unusual plants flourish here.

Ennismore Gardens was built on the site of the former paddocks and gardens of Kingston House built in 1770. Named after William Hare, Viscount Ennismore and Earl of Listowel, in former times the gardens stretched the whole length of Prince's Gate. The Victorian garden was planted in 1870 and since the 1980s has been extensively restored and replanted. The garden has a central lawn edged with serpentine paths and dense shrubberies, and is enclosed on 3 sides by cast-iron railings, punctuated by 3 pairs of C19th Portland stone gate piers and four C19th corner piers. An ornamental urn commemorates actress Ava Gardner, who lived here.

Forbes House is a surprisingly large early to mid C19th mansion with a lodge and forecourt. A private residence until the C20th, it was used after WWII by the War Office Institution Club and in 1959 it became the headquarters of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders until 2010. The gardens contained a few good trees but the grounds are largely given over to car parking, especially to the rear. It has now been sold as a private residence.

The Formosa Garden is a communal garden behind houses on Warrington Crescent, Castellain Road, Formosa Street and Sutherland Avenue. Until c.1980 much of this area was within the Paddington Estate of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, administered by Trustees. Developed in the mid C19th, much of the housing here had communal gardens provided for the use of occupiers of the surrounding houses. The large garden is triangular in shape and lined with plane trees, and has island beds set in lawn and a number of fine trees.

The Garden of Rest Marylebone is a small memorial garden adjacent to Marylebone Parish Church, the 4th church to serve the parish. The first was near Marble Arch but in 1400 a new church was built nearer the village of Marylebone, replaced in 1740 by another small church, itself replaced when the current church was built to the north in 1813-17. The old church was closed in 1926, but not demolished until 1949, following WWII bomb damage. Its site is now that of the Garden of Rest, created in 1951, with the foundations of the church marked. The garden is predominantly paved with some planting and it contains a number of gravestones and memorials, including one to Charles Wesley erected in 1858 who had been buried here in 1788.

Gloucester Square was laid out as part of George Gutch's 'Final Plan for Tyburnia' of 1838 on the estate lands of the Church Commissioners, in an axis containing Sussex Square, Cambridge and Oxford Squares and Norfolk Crescent. Its name derives from William, Duke of Gloucester, who had a townhouse nearby. The south side was designed in 1844 by George Ledwell Taylor; the other three sides are now redevelopments of the C20th. The garden enclosure was provided as a private garden for occupiers of the square. Nowadays there are roses and flowerbeds, and substantial mature London plane trees.