Ridgmount Gardens is a street in

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, London, that runs from

Torrington Place Torrington Place is a street in London that runs between Tottenham Court Road in the West and Byng Place in the East. It is crossed by Huntley Street and Gower Street. Chenies Mews joins it on the north side and is continued by Ridgmount Gardens ...

in the north to Chenies Street in the south. It runs parallel with

Huntley Street Huntley Street is a street in Bloomsbury, London, known for its close association with University College Hospital. Location Huntley Street runs from Grafton Way in the north to Chenies Street in the south. It runs parallel with Tottenham Cou ...

and Gower Street and is continued by Ridgmount Place in the south. On the western side of the street is the Ridgmount Gardens mansion block, on the eastern side is a long narrow garden which backs on to the gardens of the houses of Gower Street. The Ridgmount Gardens

mansion block An apartment (American English), or flat (British English, Indian English, South African English), is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies part of a building, generally on a single story. There are man ...

was built in the 1890s and includes 149 flats. The freehold of the properties is owned and managed by the Bedford Estate .About
Ridgmount Gardens, WC1. Hurford Salvi Carr. Retrieved 31 December 2014.

Inhabitants

The poet and playwright George Egerton (Mrs Golding Bright) (1859–1945) lived at number 59.Williams, George G. Assisted by Marian and Geoffrey Williams. (1973) ''Guide to Literary London''. London:

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, p. 134. Novelist and dramatist Joseph Hatton (1837-1907) lived at number 87. Musician

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(1945–1981) lived at 34 Ridgmount Gardens in 1972 and a

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marks the spot. On Christmas Eve 1961,

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(4 February 1905 – 1 May 1986) was hit by a passing car that mounted the pavement in London's Charing Cross Road, not far from her then home at 97 Ridgmount Gardens.Notable London Abodes
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References

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