Belgrave Square
Belgrave Square is a large 19th-century garden square in London. It is the centrepiece of Belgravia, and its architecture resembles the original scheme of property contractor Thomas Cubitt who engaged George Basevi for all of the terraces for the 2nd Earl Grosvenor, later the 1st Marquess of Westminster, in the 1820s.Photo: PAUL FARMER, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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- Type: Garden
- Description: square in London, England, UK
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Constitution Arch and Apsley House.
Constitution Arch
Photo: Canaan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Wellington Arch, also known as the Constitution Arch or as the Green Park Arch, is a Grade I-listed triumphal arch by Decimus Burton that forms a centrepiece of Hyde Park Corner in central London, the road junction near the south-eastern corner of Hyde Park. Constitution Arch is situated 1,400 feet northeast of Belgrave Square.
Apsley House
Museum
Photo: Anthony O’Neil, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Apsley House is the London townhouse of the Dukes of Wellington. It stands alone at Hyde Park Corner, on the south-east corner of Hyde Park, facing towards the large traffic roundabout in the centre of which stands the Wellington Arch. Apsley House is situated 1,600 feet north of Belgrave Square.
Hyde Park
Park
Photo: Alvesgaspar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hyde Park is a 350-acre, historic Grade I-listed urban park in Westminster, Greater London. A Royal Park, it is the largest of the parks and green spaces that form a chain from Kensington Palace through Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, via Hyde Park Corner and Green Park, past Buckingham Palace to St James's Park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Belgravia and Victoria.
Belgravia
Suburb
Photo: Paul Farmer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Belgravia is a district in Central London, covering parts of the areas of the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Belgravia was known as the 'Five Fields' during the Tudor Period, and became a dangerous place due to highwaymen and robberies.
Victoria
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Victoria is an area of Westminster, Central London in the City of Westminster. It is named after Victoria Station, which is a major transport hub. The station was named after the nearby Victoria Street, opened 1851.
Knightsbridge
Suburb
Photo: David.Monniaux, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Knightsbridge is a residential and retail district in central London, south of Hyde Park. It is identified in the London Plan as one of two international retail centres in London, alongside the West End.
Belgrave Square
- Categories: square and recreation area
- Location: Westminster, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.49919° or 51° 29′ 57″ northLongitude
-0.15351° or 0° 9′ 13″ westOpen location code
9C3XFRXW+MHOpenStreetMap ID
way 583949657OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=gardenWikidata ID
Q2894411
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Belgrave Square” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Belgrave Square”
- Albanian: “Belgrave Square”
- Aragonese: “Belgrave Square”
- Asturian: “Belgrave Square”
- Basque: “Belgrave Square”
- Bavarian: “Belgrave Square”
- Bosnian: “Belgrave Square”
- Breton: “Belgrave Square”
- Catalan: “Belgrave Square”
- Chinese: “貝爾格雷夫廣場”
- Chinese: “贝尔格雷夫广场”
- Cornish: “Belgrave Square”
- Corsican: “Belgrave Square”
- Croatian: “Belgrave Square”
- Czech: “Belgrave Square”
- Danish: “Belgrave Square”
- Dutch: “Belgrave Square”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ميدان بلجريف”
- Esperanto: “Belgrave Square”
- Estonian: “Belgrave Square”
- Faroese: “Belgrave Square”
- Finnish: “Belgrave Square”
- French: “Belgrave Square”
- Galician: “Belgrave Square”
- German: “Belgrave Square”
- Greek: “Πλατεία Μπέλγκρεϊβ”
- Hebrew: “כיכר בלגרייב”
- Hungarian: “Belgrave Square”
- Icelandic: “Belgrave Square”
- Indonesian: “Belgrave Square”
- Irish: “Belgrave Square”
- Italian: “Belgrave Square”
- Japanese: “ベルグレーヴ広場”
- Japanese: “ベルグレイヴ・スクエア”
- Japanese: “ベルグレイブ・スクエア”
- Japanese: “ベルグレイブ広場”
- Latvian: “Belgrave Square”
- Lithuanian: “Belgrave Square”
- Luxembourgish: “Belgrave Square”
- Malay: “Belgrave Square”
- Malay: “Medan Belgrave”
- Maltese: “Belgrave Square”
- Manx: “Belgrave Square”
- Narom: “Belgrave Square”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Belgrave Square”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Belgrave Square”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Belgrave Square”
- Persian: “بلگریو اسکوئر”
- Piemontese: “Belgrave Square”
- Polish: “Belgrave Square”
- Portuguese: “Belgrave Square”
- Romanian: “Belgrave Square”
- Romansh: “Belgrave Square”
- Russian: “Белгрейвская площадь”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Belgrave Square”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Belgrave Square”
- Slovak: “Belgrave Square”
- Slovenian: “Belgrave Square”
- Spanish: “Belgrave Square”
- Swedish: “Belgrave Square”
- Tahitian: “Belgrave Square”
- Turkish: “Belgrave Square”
- Ukrainian: “Белгрейвська площа”
- Urdu: “بلگریو اسکوائر”
- Urdu: “بلگریو چوک”
- Walloon: “Belgrave Square”
- Welsh: “Sgwar Belgrave”
- Zulu: “Belgrave Square”
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