Chalcot Square is a garden square in the Primrose Hill district of London, England.
The square was laid out between 1849 and 1860 and was known as St George's Square until 1937.[1] It is a residential square, well known for its brightly coloured Italianate terraced houses.[2][3][4] Every house on the square is grade-II listed.[5][6][7][8][9]
Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes lived at 3 Chalcot Square for years and Plath is commemorated with a blue plaque. They rented their home to Assia Wevill and David Wevill. Other famous residents have included Ralph, Marion, Ed, and David Miliband; Robert Plant;[10] Joan Bakewell;[11] India Knight and Eric Joyce;[12] Alan Bennett,[13] and M. R. D. Foot.[14]
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ChalcotSquare is a garden square in the Primrose Hill district of London, England. The square was laid out between 1849 and 1860 and was known as St George's...
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Amichai. In 1961, poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath rented their flat in ChalcotSquare, Primrose Hill, London, to Assia and David Wevill, and took up residence...
Roger Fenton at 2 Albert Terrace; poet and novelist Sylvia Plath at 3 ChalcotSquare; and poet William Butler Yeats at 23 Fitzroy Road. Stanley Johnson and...
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Squares have long been a feature of London and come in numerous identifiable forms. The landscaping spectrum of squares stretches from those with more...
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