Arundel Square
garden square in Barnsbury, London, England, UK
Arundel Square is a garden square in Barnsbury, North London. It is bounded on three sides by terraces of Victorian houses, and on the fourth with modern flats. The central public gardens contain mature trees, attractive flower beds and playground equipment.
History
The square was built on Pocock's Fields, dairy grassland belonging to Richard Pocock, in 1826 measuring 14 acres (5.7 ha). In 1841, his son Samuel owned all the open land between the Back Road (now Liverpool Road) and the then-new Pentonville Prison.
Arundel Square was one of the last of Islington's Victorian squares to be built. Piecemeal building began in 1850, with the east side of the square completed in 1852, and the north side in 1855–60. The west side, completed in the late 1850s-1860, is really part of Westbourne Road. Money seems to have run out and the south side of the square was not built, instead being completed by a deep railway cutting for the North London Railway.
In 1856 a boys' day school was established at no.
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