Rosmead Garden (London)

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This used to be called the Lansdowne and Elgin Crescent Garden. It lies behind the houses along the south side of Elgin Crescent, and those on the north side of Lansdowne Road (between Rosmead Road and Ladbroke Grove). It extends over 0.82ha, and is a large, curving garden near the foot of the hill. It lies between the painted stucco houses along the south side of Elgin Crescent (Nos. 65-115 odds) to the north and Lansdowne Road (Nos. 79-123) to the south. The houses have their own private gardens giving onto the communal garden. The ends of the communal garden abut onto Ladbroke Grove to the east and onto Rosmead Road to the west.
The garden retains most of its mid C19 paths, although simplified in the centre, and its original railings with cast-iron coping along Rosmead Road. Shrubberies back three large oval-shaped lawns and there are dense evergreen shrubberies at the west and east ends. Osbert Lancaster (1908-86) lived in Elgin Crescent as a child and described it in All done from Memory (1963) and the Ladbroke Estate in general in The Pleasure Garden (1977), co-authored with Anne Scott-James. It is the garden in which Hugh Grant proposed to Julia Roberts in the film Notting Hill.
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