Norland Square is a

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in the Notting Hill area of

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. Located in the

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, runs northward from Holland Park Avenue to Queensdale Road. The mews street Norland Place runs eastwards of the Square. The name of the square, as well as the nearby Norland Place and Norland Road, come from the

Norland Estate The Norland Estate was an historic estate of fifty-two acres north of Holland Park Avenue (formerly the Uxbridge Road) and bounded in the east by the roads now known as Portland Road and Pottery Lane, and in the west by the borders of the paris ...

which is the historic name for the

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s in the northern part of Kensington Parish. It was designed by

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and property developer

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, who laid out the area in 1837, and was constructed during the early

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. Cantwell also oversaw the almost contemporaneous

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, which was likewise developed from the old Norland Estate. Since the 1820s Cantwell had been involved in development plans for the larger Ladbroke Estate to the north. In 1876

Emily Ward Emily Mary Jane Ward, née Lord (13 August 1850 – 15 June 1930), was a pioneer of childcare education in England. She founded several institutions including Norland Place School and, most notably, the Norland Institute. Biography Lord was born ...

founded the

Norland Place School Norland Place School is a co-educational independent preparatory school for boys and girls 4–11 in Holland Park, London. The school was founded in 1876 by Emily Lord. History Founded in 1876 by Emily Lord, Norland Place School originally ...

in an earlier Norland Place, now part of Holland Park Avenue. A number of buildings in the square are now

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. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1225684?section=official-list-entry

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* Bebbington, Gillian. ''London Street Names''. Batsford, 1972. * Cherry, Bridget & Pevsner, Nikolaus. ''London 3: North West''. Yale University Press, 2002. * Hibbert, Christopher Weinreb, Ben, Keay, John & Keay, Julia. ''The London Encyclopaedia''. Pan Macmillan, 2011. Streets in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Notting Hill Squares in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea {{London-road-stub

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