Mecklenburgh Square
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Mecklenburgh Square is in Camden, central London, England with historic terraced houses. Facilities in the square include two acres of garden, a children's playground, and a tennis court. The Square is Grade II listed by English Heritage. The garden includes formal lawns, gravel paths, mature plane trees and other ornamental trees. Two sides of the square have borders with plants from New Zealand.
To the west is Coram's Fields, a park, so there are only really three sides to the square. To the east is Gray's Inn Road. Goodenough College is a postgraduate residence and educational trust on the north and south sides of the square.
The nearest tube station is Russell Square to the south-west.
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At number 21 there is a blue plaque for R. H. Tawney (1880 - 1962), historian. In the same doorway is a blue plaque for Syed Ahmed Khan (1817-1898).
No 34 was shared by the Women's Trade Union League, the National Anti-Sweating League and the People's Suffrage Federation.
Dorothy Glover (1901 - 1971), a theatre designer, lived somewhere is Mecklenburgh Square. From 1938 to 1940 she had an affair with Graham Greene. Together they produced four children's books. Dorothy Glover (using the name Dorothy Craigie) drew the pictures and Greene wrote the text.
At 44 there is a plaque (not an English Heritage one) for H.D. Hilda Dolittle (1886 - 1961), the Canadian poet. She was married to Richard Aldington, who in turn was a friend of D.H. Lawrence. Lawrence lived here as well, from October to 30th November 1917.
