Chester Square

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This article is about the garden square in London. For the garden square in Boston, see Chester Square (Boston).

Chester Square is an elongated residential garden square in London's Belgravia district. It was developed by the Grosvenor family, as were the nearby Belgrave and Eaton Square. The square is named after the city of Chester, the city nearest the Grosvenors' ancestral home of Eaton Hall.

No.32 was used as a backdrop for video accompanying Morrissey's track "Suedehead".

The whole except No.s 80a, 81, 81a, 82, 83 and 83a (so No.s 1–13 and 14–23, 24–32, 37–39, 42–45, 45a, 45b, 65–76 and 77–80, 80a, and 84–88 and the Mews Arch) is listed Grade II for architectural merit.

The (private, communal) gardens are Grade II listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.

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