For the former US embassy sometimes known as "Grosvenor Square", see Embassy of the United States in London. For the square of the same name in Dublin, see Grosvenor Square, Dublin.
The central garden in Grosvenor Square, now a public park (pictured November 2008)
Grosvenor Square (/ˈɡroʊvənər/GROH-vən-ər) is a large garden square in the Mayfair district of Westminster, Greater London. It is the centrepiece of the Mayfair property of the Duke of Westminster, and takes its name from the duke's surname "Grosvenor". It was developed for fashionable residences in the 18th century. In the 20th it had an American and Canadian diplomatic presence, and currently is mixed use, commercial.
GrosvenorSquare (/ˈɡroʊvənər/ GROH-vən-ər) is a large garden square in the Mayfair district of Westminster, Greater London. It is the centrepiece of the...
included Hanover Square, Berkeley Square and GrosvenorSquare, which were surrounded by high-quality houses, and St George's Hanover Square Church. By the...
largely untouched by the Grosvenors until the 1720s, when they developed the northern part, now known as Mayfair, around GrosvenorSquare. A few generations...
influence in the 19th century. The house gave its name to Upper Grosvenor Street and GrosvenorSquare. The house was requisitioned during the First World War...
Gallery Grosvenor House Grosvenor House Hotel Grosvenor School of Modern Art GrosvenorSquareGrosvenor Bridge (Chester) Grosvenor Museum Grosvenor Rowing...
I Live in GrosvenorSquare is a British comedy-drama romance war film directed and produced by Herbert Wilcox. It was the first of Wilcox's "London films"...
Bryanston Square in London and she was known as Lady Ribblesdale. Lister died six years later on October 21, 1925, at their townhouse on GrosvenorSquare in...
case Eaton Hall, the Grosvenor country house. It is larger but less grand than the central feature of the district, Belgrave Square, and both larger and...
Building (fronting GrosvenorSquare); both have the longest frontage of their respective streets. The senior branch of the Grosvenor family is in British...
Eaton Square. Much of Belgravia, known as the Grosvenor Estate, is still owned by a family property company, the Duke of Westminster's Grosvenor Group...
The Biltmore Mayfair is a 5-star luxury hotel located at 44 GrosvenorSquare in the Mayfair area of London, England. It underwent significant renovations...
involvement in the Vietnam War before marching to the American Embassy in GrosvenorSquare. Throughout the 1980s, a continuous anti-apartheid protest was held...
S. military in Vietnam. On March 17, an anti-war demonstration in GrosvenorSquare, London, ended with 86 people injured and 200 demonstrators arrested...
Fashionable terraces appeared in London's GrosvenorSquare from 1727 onwards and in Bath's Queen Square from 1729 onwards. The Scottish architect Robert...
to I Live in GrosvenorSquare (1945). He hoped to use the same leads, Anna Neagle and Rex Harrison, but the success of GrosvenorSquare saw Harrison offered...
host. She died weeks later on 6 December 1977 at the age of 85 at 15 GrosvenorSquare. Her funeral was held on 10 December at St Mary's Church, Luton. She...
world—except for me." Harrison appeared opposite Anna Neagle in I Live in GrosvenorSquare (1945) which was another big hit. Also popular was The Rake's Progress...
corner of GrosvenorSquare to Curzon Street. The street is named after Hugh Audley, whose heirs acquired the land following Sir Thomas Grosvenor's marriage...
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