Porchester Square

Porchester Square is an archetypal-format, narrow garden square in on the cusp of inter-related . It is lined with tall white Victorian classical architecture residential buildings.
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include London Paddington railway station and Royal Oak tube station.

Railway station
Photo: TheFrog001, CC0.
London Paddington, also known as just Paddington, is a member of the London station group and London Underground station complex, located on Praed Street in the area. is situated 2,300 feet east of Porchester Square.

Metro station
Royal Oak is a London Underground station. It is on the Circle and Hammersmith & City lines, between and Paddington stations. The station is on Lord Hill's Bridge and is in Travelcard Zone 2 for the London Underground. is situated 490 feet north of Porchester Square.

Garden
, known as Westbourne Park until the late nineteenth century, are gardens on a triangular plot in Bayswater, London, in the . The gardens are open to the public and maintained by the City of Westminster. is situated 750 feet west of Porchester Square.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hallfield Estate and Westbourne Green.

Neighborhood
Photo: HallfieldResident, Public domain.
The is one of several modernist housing projects in , , and was designed in the immediate postwar period by the Tecton architecture practice, led by Berthold Lubetkin.

Neighborhood
is an area of , the centre of the former hamlet of Westbourne, at the north-western corner of the .

Locality
is an affluent residential district in North West London, England, around the junction of the Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal, the Regent's Canal, and the entrance to Paddington Basin.

Porchester Square

Latitude
51.51768° or 51° 31′ 4″ north
Longitude
-0.18727° or 0° 11′ 14″ west
Open location code
9C3XGR97+33
Open­Street­Map ID
way 23610334
Open­Street­Map feature
leisure=­garden
Wiki­data ID
Q17018047
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In Other Languages

From French to Turkish—“Porchester Square” goes by many names.
  • French: Porchester Square
  • Malay: Dataran Porchester
  • Turkish: Porchester Square

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Porchester Hall and Paddington Library.

Nearby Places

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