Wellington Square, Chelsea

Wellington Square area map
King's Road and Smith Street c.1800 before the development of Wellington Square. The site of the square is adjacent to the plot marked Morley's.
Garden fountain in Wellington Square
Garden fountain in Wellington Square
Wellington Square south side

Wellington Square is a garden square in Chelsea, London, off the south side of the King's Road. It was built in the first decades of the nineteenth century on the former site of a nursery owned by the florist and "well-known tulip-fancier"[1] Thomas Davey and named after the Duke of Wellington. The square consists of 35 five-storey terraced stucco houses around a central garden with a fountain. The whole square is grade II listed with Historic England.

In 1870 it was the location of a double-murder. A. A. Milne, creator of Winnie-the-Pooh, lived there in the early 1900s as well as the notorious occultist Aleister Crowley in the 1920s. It was the home of fictional spy James Bond. Other notable former residents include the geologist Samuel Joseph Mackie at number 11 and the miniaturist Alice Rischgitz at number 12.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference pav was invoked but never defined (see the help page).