Mecklenburgh Square

Mecklenburgh Square

Coordinates: 51°31′28″N 0°7′7″W / 51.52444°N 0.11861°W / 51.52444; -0.11861

Mecklenburgh Square street sign
Corner of Mecklenburgh Square and Mecklenburgh Street
Plaque on number 44

Mecklenburgh Square is a Grade II listed public square located in the King's Cross area of central London. It is notable for the number of historic terraced houses that face directly onto the square.

Facilities in the square include 2 acres (8,100 m2) of garden, a children's playground, and a tennis court. The garden includes formal lawns, gravel paths, mature plane trees and other ornamental trees. Two sides of the square have borders with plants from New Zealand.

To the west is Coram's Fields, a private park, and to the east is Gray's Inn Road, a major thoroughfare for the area. Goodenough College is a postgraduate residence and educational trust on the north and south sides of the square, and operates an academic-oriented hotel on the east side.

Russell Square tube station is located to the south-west of the square, and the major railway terminus of King's Cross-St Pancras is a short walk north.

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At number 21 there is a blue plaque for R. H. Tawney (1880 - 1962), historian.[1] In the same doorway is a blue plaque for Sir Syed Ahmed Khan (1817-1898).[2]

No. 34 was shared by the Women's Trade Union League, the National Anti-Sweating League and the People's Suffrage Federation.[citation needed]

Virginia Woolf lived at number 37 from October 1939 to August 1940.[citation needed] Damaged by bombing, the original house was rebuilt as part of the Goodenough College building.

Dorothy Glover (1901 - 1971), a theatre designer, lived somewhere is Mecklenburgh Square.[citation needed] From 1938 to 1940 she had an affair with Graham Greene and together they produced four children's books. Dorothy Glover (using the name Dorothy Craigie) drew the pictures and Greene wrote the text.

At no. 44 there is a plaque (though not an English Heritage one) for H.D. (Hilda Doolittle 1886 - 1961), the American poet.[3] She was married to Richard Aldington, who in turn was a friend of D. H. Lawrence. Lawrence lived here also, from October to 30 November 1917.[citation needed]

The author Emanuel Litvinoff has lived in the Square for many decades[citation needed].

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