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Dorset Square is a garden square in Marylebone, London.

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Map of Dorset Square, Marylebone, London, UK

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Location

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. 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

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.

Notable residents

  • Robert Fellowes (1771–1847), cleric, journalist and philanthropist
  • Thomas Duer Broughton (1778–1835), army officer and writer on India
  • Bithia Mary Croker (c. 1848–1920), Irish-born novelist, died at No. 30
  • Sir Laurence Gomme (1853–1916), folklorist (No. 24)
  • Dodie Smith (1896–1990), novelist and playwright (No. 18)
  • Jane Ridley (born 1953), historian, biographer and broadcaster

    • References

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