Dorset Square

Dorset Square

Dorset Square is a garden square in Marylebone, London. The square is on the site of what was Lord's Old Cricket Ground before its relocation.

Location

The immediate vicinity of Dorset Square.
A map showing the Dorset Square ward of St Marylebone Metropolitan Borough as it appeared in 1916.

Dorset Square is on the site of what was Lord's Old Ground, before the cricket club moved to the present Lord's Cricket Ground in St John's Wood, London.[1] It is to the immediate north of Marylebone Road, and joined on its eastern corners by Gloucester Place and in the west by Balcombe Street.

Buildings

Dodie Smith blue plaque, 18 Dorset Square
Laurence Gomme blue plaque, 24 Dorset Square

The east side (1-8) and the north side (9-20), are all Grade II listed. The Embassy of El Salvador, London is at no. 8. Number 1 currently houses the London branch of Alliance Française but during WWII functioned as its international headquarters when the original in Paris was closed.[2] A plaque by the front door commemorates the building's history as the site from which agents of the French Resistance were equipped for, and dispatched to, undercover missions in Occupied France.

Notable residents

In birth order:

References

  1. ↑ The Independent: site unseen The first Lord's Cricket Ground, Dorset Square, London - Entertainment - Extras - The Independent, accessdate: 02/09/2014
  2. ↑ "130 years of Franco-British friendship in London..." Alliance Française de Londres. Alliance Française. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  3. ↑ "Grossmith, George". English Heritage. Retrieved 9 November 2017.

Coordinates: 51°31′22″N 0°09′40″W / 51.5228°N 0.1610°W / 51.5228; -0.1610

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