Euston Square Gardens is a public garden on

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in the

London Borough of Camden The London Borough of Camden () is a London borough in Inner London. Camden Town Hall, on Euston Road, lies north of Charing Cross. The borough was established on 1 April 1965 from the area of the former boroughs of Hampstead, Holborn, and St ...

. The gardens are the northern gardens of the former residential Euston Square, the southern gardens were renamed

Endsleigh Gardens Endsleigh Gardens is a street in the Bloomsbury district of central London, in the London Borough of Camden. It runs south-west to north-east from Gordon Street to Woburn Place. The south-west end becomes Gower Place after the junction with Gordon ...

. The gardens are enclosed by railings and covered with grass and London plane trees. The two lodges at the gardens date from 1870 and were once the entrance to Euston station. They are inscribed with the names of the

London and North Western Railway The London and North Western Railway (LNWR, L&NWR) was a British railway company between 1846 and 1922. In the late 19th century, the L&NWR was the largest joint stock company in the United Kingdom. In 1923, it became a constituent of the Lo ...

. A worksite for

High Speed 2 High Speed 2 (HS2) is a planned high-speed railway line in England, the first phase of which is under construction in stages and due for completion between 2029 and 2033, depending on approval for later stages. The new line will run from its m ...

and the proposed

Euston St Pancras railway station Euston St Pancras railway station is a proposed station on the future Crossrail 2 line in the United Kingdom linking Hertfordshire and north-east London to south-west London and Surrey. Connections with surrounding stations The station would be ...

is situated at the gardens. This is to construct an underground pedestrian link between

Euston railway station Euston railway station ( ; also known as London Euston) is a central London railway terminus in the London Borough of Camden, managed by Network Rail. It is the southern terminus of the West Coast Main Line, the UK's busiest inter-city railw ...

and

Euston Square tube station Euston Square is a London Underground station at the corner of Euston Road and Gower Street, just north of University College London – its main entrance faces the tower of University College Hospital. The multi-interchange Euston station ...

Protest

A protest camp against HS2 was set up in the park in September 2020. This included a tall construction made largely of pallets that the protestors dubbed “Buckingham Pallets”. It was revealed in January 2021 that protesters had built a 100ft tunnel under the gardens as part of protests against the planned

railway. Nine activists occupied the tunnels starting 27 January as part of the protest. The first protester left the tunnel on February 5 A second protester left on the 6th. A third left on the 15th and a fourth on the 17th. A 5th was evicted on the 23rd and a further 3 left on the 25th. The final protester left on the 26th. In March, a freedom of information request revealed that the

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had spent £140,000 on policing the tunnels during the removal of the protesters.

Historic maps

File:Euston Square area, Ordnance Survey map 1874.jpg, The East and West Euston Square Gardens at the centre of an 1874 Ordnance Survey map File:Euston Square area, Ordnance Survey map 1895.jpg, The evolution of the gardens are visible on this 1895 Ordnance Survey map after renaming File:Euston Square and Endsleigh Gardens area, Ordnance Survey map 1953.jpg, The encroaching boundaries of Euston railway station to the gardens are visible on this 1953 Ordnance Survey map1953 Ordnance Survey map, Digimap. Retrieved 5 March 2018.

References

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