Charles Square
Names
- Charles Square
Street/Area/District
- Charles Square
Maps & Views
- 1720 London (Strype): Charles Square
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Charles Square
- 1799 London (Horwood): Charles Square
Descriptions
from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)
Charles Square, a pleasant tho' small one, S. from the str. last mentioned. [Charles str. betn Queen str. near Hoxton Market, E. and the Fields W. a pleasant str. L. 120 Yds.]
from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)
Charles’s square, a small neat square near Pitfield street, Hoxton: a grass plat in the area is surrounded with wooden rails, and a row of trees on each side, all cut in the manner of a cone, or sugar loaf. The houses, which take up only two sides and a part of a third, are handsome buildings; and the rest of the square is separated from the neighbouring gardens by rows of pales.
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Charles-Square, Hoxton,—is on the N. side of the Vinegar-ground, the first on the L. in Pitfield-street, from St. Agnes le Clair, Old-st. road, near Charles-place.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Charles-Sq., Hoxton, is a small neat square, near Pitfield-street, on the north side of the Vinegar-yard, the first turning on the north side of the Vinegar-yar, the first turning on the left hand going from Old-street-road.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Charles Square, Hoxton, on the west of Pitfield Street. Here lived the Rev. John Newton, the popular preacher, hymn writer, and friend of Cowper; and from here (February 8, 1782) is dated the suppressed preface to the first edition of "Poems, by William Cowper, of the Middle Temple, Esq."