Ebury Square Gardens

Welcome to Ebury Square gardens

The Garden provides a quiet shaded oasis from a very busy environment in the Pimlico area of the city. The London Planes provide a shaded spot next to the busy Victoria Coach Station where residents and office workers can relax and where tourists can rest on a bench until they need to board their coaches.

The garden is managed by the City of Westminster's Parks Service. A copy of the Management Plan for this site can be viewed by clicking on the link.

Location

Ebury Square, Pimlico, London, SW1 

Tube

Nearest tube station is Victoria on the District and Circle and Victoria Lines. The station is a good ten minute walk from the garden.

Buses

The nearest bus routes are 11, 44, 170, 211, C1 and C10 which all run along Buckingham Palace Road.

Victoria Coach Station is across the road from the garden.

Facilities

• Formal lawns, bedding and ornamental shrubs
• Fountain
• Donated benches

History

The square opened to the public in 1884 was originally laid out in 1820 (est) .

Ebury Street and Ebury Square were so called from Ebury or Eabery Farm, which stood on this site. Ebury Square, the garden of which is open to the public, and tastefully laid out, was built about 1820. The farm on that spot, which in 1676 came to the Grosvenor family, was a farm of 430 acres in Queen Elizabeth's time, and is mentioned as early as 1307, when Edward I. gave John de Benstede permission to fortify it.

The British poet, Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), stayed at No. 42 Ebury Street in 1847. His work included In Memoriam (1850) and "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1854) which reflected Victorian sentiments and aesthetics. He was appointed poet laureate of England in 1850

Location map for Ebury Square Gardens